CMake fixes

[abompard]

Hi all,

I'm building RPMs for Spring on Fedora, and from the (distant) looks of it you're switching your build system from Scons to CMake. Is that right ? I quickly searched the forum but didn't find a definitive decision.

The build with Scons works fine, but I tried the build with CMake and I thought I'd let you know which problems I ran into :

• CMake does not detect the Allegro library, because it misses the FindAllegro.cmake file, which I'm attaching here (it works for me but I'm no CMake developer, so it may need tweaking). Call to this file must be added to the CMakeLists.txt file, I'm attaching the patch too.
• CMake does not install the AI libs in /usr/lib/spring like Scons does, but puts them in /usr/share/spring.

Apart from that, it looks pretty good to me :)

Did you reach a decision on your choice of buildsystems yet, or are you just testing CMake ?

[Auswaschbar]

[*]CMake does not detect the Allegro library, because it misses the FindAllegro.cmake file, which I'm attaching here (it works for me but I'm no CMake developer, so it may need tweaking). Call to this file must be added to the CMakeLists.txt file, I'm attaching the patch too.

Spring does not need allegro library.

[det]

I see you have packaged spring-installer and ca-installer as well, Thanks! Was there any difficulty with these? I recently found out that they don't compile out-of-the-box on gentoo due to some lablgtk packaging incompatibilities.

[Tobi]

[*]CMake does not detect the Allegro library, because it misses the FindAllegro.cmake file, which I'm attaching here (it works for me but I'm no CMake developer, so it may need tweaking). Call to this file must be added to the CMakeLists.txt file, I'm attaching the patch too.

Spring does not need allegro library.

When some other thread was posted about this I noticed somewhere some distributions actually have libdevil depend on allegro, IIRC...

[Auswaschbar]

[*]CMake does not detect the Allegro library, because it misses the FindAllegro.cmake file, which I'm attaching here (it works for me but I'm no CMake developer, so it may need tweaking). Call to this file must be added to the CMakeLists.txt file, I'm attaching the patch too.

Spring does not need allegro library.

When some other thread was posted about this I noticed somewhere some distributions actually have libdevil depend on allegro, IIRC...

Shouldn't they then link devil against allegro?

[Tobi]

Yes, that's what I would think too

Seems like it needs some further research..

[abompard]

I see you have packaged spring-installer and ca-installer as well, Thanks! Was there any difficulty with these? I recently found out that they don't compile out-of-the-box on gentoo due to some lablgtk packaging incompatibilities.

I have two main problems with these :

• Tarballs for older releases are removed from the server (I can't find 20081228 anywhere)
• The latest version needs ocaml-zip >= 1.04 and we only have 1.03 in the current Fedora release. And if Spring-Installer is to enter Fedora, it cannot force a more recent version of another package, so I'm staying with 20081228 for now.

Other than that, it worked fine. Are you the author ?

[abompard]

Spring does not need allegro library.

When some other thread was posted about this I noticed somewhere some distributions actually have libdevil depend on allegro, IIRC...

You're right, actually it's the DevIL-ILUT package which brings Allegro, but for some reason the compilation options of Allegro (-Wl,--export-dynamic -lalleg-4.2.2 -lalleg_unsharable) must be added to the compiler line. I suppose it comes from one of these options, but I don't know why. (As strange as it may seem, I'm a packager but I know very little C/C++...)

[Auswaschbar]

I see you have packaged spring-installer and ca-installer as well, Thanks! Was there any difficulty with these? I recently found out that they don't compile out-of-the-box on gentoo due to some lablgtk packaging incompatibilities.

I have two main problems with these :

• Tarballs for older releases are removed from the server (I can't find 20081228 anywhere)
• The latest version needs ocaml-zip >= 1.04 and we only have 1.03 in the current Fedora release. And if Spring-Installer is to enter Fedora, it cannot force a more recent version of another package, so I'm staying with 20081228 for now.

Other than that, it worked fine. Are you the author ?

Yes, he is the author.

• I asked him about tarballs because I wanted to make ebuilds for it, he said he will make some
• gentoo also has camlzip in version 1.03, and it works here with some modifications he will include

Is there a way to get in touch with the maintainer of the Devil-package, mailinglist, bugtracker etc?

[abompard]

Yes, he is the author.

• I asked him about tarballs because I wanted to make ebuilds for it, he said he will make some
• gentoo also has camlzip in version 1.03, and it works here with some modifications he will include

Great news ! I contacted him too, but got no reply yet. Det, sorry for the duplication...

Is there a way to get in touch with the maintainer of the Devil-package, mailinglist, bugtracker etc?

If you mean in Fedora, the preferred way is to open a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com.
If it's not about a bug or a feature request, you can use the devil-owner[AT]fedoraproject(.)org email alias.