[Debian-med-packaging] How to make meson accept that `pkg-config --cflags ` has empty result in case only /usr/include is needed

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> 
>> >> > The HDFAtom::Initialize above is calling "group.Initialize" passing an
>> >> > "H5::H5File&" as the first parameter, but there's no
>> >> > "H5Group::Initialize (H5::H5File&...)" method declared.  This is a bug.
>> >> > 
>> >> > The code is too cryptic for me understand what the correct solution is
>> >> > in this case.  There are a few possibilities (creating a HDFFile first,
>> >> > iterating over the available groups, etc.), but I'm not sure.
>> >> > 
>> >> > I'd report this upstream.
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks for your hint - I did so in
>> >> 
>> >>     https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr_libcpp/issues/166
>> >
>> > This issue was closed with the remark:
>> >
>> >    We don't support source builds. Please install blasr via bioconda as the README states. Thank you.
>> >
>> > and than they closed the issue tracker at all (Github says 404 and the
>> > issues entry vanished).  Pretty unhelpful and I wonder how bioconda
>> > might magically resolve conflicting definitions.
>> 
>> Oh, wow.  What do they mean by "we don't support source builds"?  The
>> user can't build the software?  This doesn't seem so free to me...
>
> Its rather:  The user is alone to fix the bugs in our releases since the
> license is actually free.  I think its "the other end of friendlyness"
> you can find in Free Software - scoring extra points by disabling the
> bug tracker.  They probably even do not want to know about their bugs.

Right, I see now, I was too fast assuming things, sorry.

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