[Debian-science-sagemath] plans to package primecount (the C++ library)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, thanks for the report.
I added only recently cmake material to the primesieve package,
precisely in version 7.6+ds-4 (test/unstable).
Have you try with this one ?
Cheers,
Jerome

On 23/11/2021 19:08, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> it looks as if on debian 11 there is a bug in the cmake-related
> configuration of libprimesieve-dev.
> Namely, it does not provide cmake config files.
> Other similar packages, such as qhull and boost do this: one can see
> there is nothing there:
> 
> $ ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/
> Boost-1.74.0  BoostDetectToolset-1.74.0.cmake  boost_headers-1.74.0  norm  Qhull
> 
> As a result, packages using cmake discovery tools (find_package, etc)
> are unable to locate it, e.g. primecount:
> (as observed while working on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009)
> 
> [primecount-7.1] Configuring primecount.
> [primecount-7.1] Configuring primecount-7.1 with cmake
> [primecount-7.1] -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 10.2.1
> [...]
> [primecount-7.1] -- Performing Test mpopcnt - Success
> [primecount-7.1] CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:258 (find_package):
> [primecount-7.1]   By not providing "Findprimesieve.cmake" in
> CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
> [primecount-7.1]   has asked CMake to find a package configuration
> file provided by
> [primecount-7.1]   "primesieve", but CMake did not find one.
> [primecount-7.1]
> [primecount-7.1]   Could not find a package configuration file
> provided by "primesieve"
> [primecount-7.1]   (requested version 7.6) with any of the following names:
> [primecount-7.1]
> [primecount-7.1]     primesieveConfig.cmake
> [primecount-7.1]     primesieve-config.cmake
> [primecount-7.1]
> [primecount-7.1]   Add the installation prefix of "primesieve" to
> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
> [primecount-7.1]   "primesieve_DIR" to a directory containing one of
> the above files.  If
> [primecount-7.1]   "primesieve" provides a separate development
> package or SDK, be sure it has
> [primecount-7.1]   been installed.
> [primecount-7.1]
> [primecount-7.1]
> [primecount-7.1] -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> 
> I think one needs to configure primesieve with
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=XXX
> where XXX is the "general"  installation prefix.
> 
> ---
> Thanks
> Dima
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:50 PM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, thanks for the clarification.
>> I got that upstream makes things a bit complicated here.
>>
>>
>> On 19/11/2021 20:25, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>> Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 19:22 +0100, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>>>>    I am getting confused.
>>>
>>> If I understood Dima's explanations:
>>>
>>> - upstream vendors its own libprimesieve in primecount ;
>>>
>>> - but you can define a switch to when compiling primecount, it doesn't
>>> use the vendored one but the system one.
>>>
>>> I would say a d/copyright eliminating the vendored version and a small
>>> patch to make the vendor-switch off by default will do the trick.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>>>
>>> I can start on it monday if you don't want to.
>>
>> I guess it would make a better sense if I package it.
>> I am familiar with the upstream maintainer.
>> And at one point, the packages might merge.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Jerome
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> J.Puydt
>>>
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