Re: [Plplot-devel] Help needed for plplot runtime tests

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2018-11-09 23:16+0100 Ole Streicher wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in the Debian package, we usually try to run CI tests regularly on each
> dependency change. This gives us the opportunity to early find problems
> with the package or one of its dependencies.
>
> However, I have some difficulties to do that; this may be connected with
> my limited knowledge of cmake.
>
> The test is started with the binaries installed in the system and the
> sources unpacked.  The working dir is the root of the sources.
>
> What I basically do now is to run the following script:
>
> --------------------8<---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> set -e
>
> SRC=$(pwd)
>
> test_dir=$(mktemp -d)
>
> cd $test_dir
> cmake $SRC/examples
>
> make test_diff_psc
> make test_noninteractive
> --------------------8<---------------------
>
> However, the "cmake" step fails with
>
> --------------------8<---------------------
> [...]
> -- CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME = Linux
> -- CMAKE_PLATFORM_INFO_DIR = /tmp/tmp.TwEFoteIXX/CMakeFiles/3.12.3
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:469 (include):
>  include could not find load file:
>
>    plplot_configure
> --------------------8<---------------------
>
> How could I fix this?


Hi Ole:

Everything you have done above should work fine for building and
testing the installed examples using the CMake-based build system for
those examples.  For example, similar tests here are normally
successful, and that error message has never occurred here.  So
looking deeper, it turns out that

include(plplot_configure)

is a command that occurs in the installed CMakeLists.txt file in the
top-level source directory for the installed examples,
SRC=/usr/share/plplot5.13.0/examples (although that 13 will change
to 14 when 5.14.0 is released).  That command is looking for
$SRC/cmake/modules/plplot_configure.cmake which normally is installed
by PLplot.  So since the error message says that installed file cannot
be found, I strongly suspect the problem is simply that your RPM needs
updating to include that installed file in the manifest.

So please let me know if (a) $SRC/cmake/modules/plplot_configure.cmake is
actually installed and if not (b) whether my guess is correct that the
incompleteness of the rpm manifest is the issue.

Best wishes,

Alan
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