[debian-mysql] MariaDB cross-compilation fails on HAVE_SYSTEM_LIBFMT_EXITCODE

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi!

Currently MariaDB cross-compilation in both
https://crossqa.debian.net/src/mariadb and
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/73
is failing on:

-- Performing Test HAVE_SYSTEM_LIBFMT
CMake Error: try_run() invoked in cross-compiling mode, please set the
following cache variables appropriately:
   HAVE_SYSTEM_LIBFMT_EXITCODE (advanced)
For details see /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/builddir/TryRunResults.cmake
-- Performing Test HAVE_SYSTEM_LIBFMT - Failed

Is anyone familiar with this, and how to properly instruct this?

Should I just set '-DHAVE_SYSTEM_LIBFMT_EXITCODE=0' as was done in
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=0e18a0cea962a187cffcca248b1685924742afd4
?

The commit above has good references to related issues and upstream
commits and it has similar patch to
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/commit/cad4f02094460d54b84de68f61ae1d879ab97222
to revert one upstream commit partially, but thought I'd ask for views
before just applying the CMake flag workaround.


- Otto