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

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 7:10 PM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>
> 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 ?

Just built it from source, installed, and yes, it fixes the problem,
Thanks.
So that's aready in unstable, right?

Best
Dima

> 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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