Re: [Pan-users] [ANNOUNCE] Pan release 0.158

[glen walpert]

On 4/19/24 12:36 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:16:56 CEST glen walpert wrote:
> > 0.157 and 0.158 both compile and run fine with Ubuntu 22.04 using the
> > snap version of cmake.  The apt version of cmake is outdated and will
> > not work.
> Well, there's indeed a line with "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25)", but
> I'm not sure that this requirement is really needed. It may work with cmake
> 3.22.
>
> Could you remove this line and retry with Ubuntu's cmake ?

Removing the line produced an error, changing it to Ubuntu's cmake 
version 3.22 allowed it to run but produced an error message:

CMake Error: The source directory "test-strftime.c" does not exist.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:194 (try_run):
  Failed to configure test project build system.


CMake Error: TRY_COMPILE attempt to remove -rf directory that does not 
contain CMakeTmp:SOURCE_FROM_CONTENT
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Switching back to the snap version of cmake 3.29.2 eliminated the error, 
build files written correctly.

I tested both ways on a fresh extraction of the downloaded zip.

> > , and oddly the -dev file for libgnutls30 is libgnutls28-dev,
> > and a sudo is required for Pan install.
> >
> > To possibly save other Ubuntu users a bit of time:
> This should be enough and will follow changes in Pan dependencies:
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep pan
Thanks, that works much better.
> That said, I'm not thrilled at the idea of documenting distro specific build
> steps because there's a lot of distributions that may need specific docs.
Reasonable enough, but don't most of us amateurs use Ubuntu/debian? 
Perhaps a paragraph of hints for us?  Deleting the autotools references 
might be even more useful.
> > Setup and build per README.org instructions, but
> >
> > To install pan - (added sudo):
> > #+BEGIN_SRC shell :results verbatim
> >     sudo cmake --install std-build
> > #+END_SRC
> I don't really recommend using sudo to install, unless you absolutely trust
> the software you're installing. Even then, installing from source is
> experimental and may wreak your system if I made a mistake in the cmake files.
> You should change the mode (or ACLs) of /usr/local to allow you to install
> there. This will limit the blast radius if there's a problem with install.

Great idea, I will figure out how to do that when I have time.

Thanks,
Glen