[CMake] Fwd: CPack does not generate a RPM

[Kristian]

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2016-04-08 8:31 GMT+02:00 Wang, Peng 1. (Nokia - CN/Hangzhou)
<peng.1.wang at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry guys, I am busy on some prioritized tasks.
> I've made a simple example, can I send in attachment? Or maybe I shall send the attachment only to you two?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of EXT Kristian
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 5:16 AM
> To: Domen Vrankar <domen.vrankar at gmail.com>
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Fwd: CPack does not generate a RPM
>
> Thank you for your answer. Setting the variable
> CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_AUTOREQ to "NO" worked.
>
> I also tried to produce a minimal example, which produces such error
> as the behaviour I described. But I couldn't generate such an example.
> I do not know currently, under which circumstances this happens :(.
>
> My assumptions are the same, that this seems to be a rpm issue.
>
> 2016-04-07 19:39 GMT+02:00 Domen Vrankar <domen.vrankar at gmail.com>:
>>> Let's assume, I have a library, e.g. liblibrary.so.5.6.7 and I have
>>> two symbolic links, so the result of "ls -l" would look like this
>>>
>>> liblibrary.so -> liblibrary.so.0
>>> liblibrary.so.0 -> liblibrary.so.5.6.7
>>> liblibrary.so.5.6.7
>>>
>>> And let's assume, I have these lines in my CMakeLists.txt:
>>>
>>> *******
>>> set(LIBRARIES
>>>         ${LIB}/liblibrary.so
>>>         ${LIB}/liblibrary.so.0
>>>         ${LIB}/liblibrary.so.5.6.7)
>>> #...
>>> install(FILES ${LIBRARIES} DESTINATION lib)
>>> *******
>>>
>>> Now, I call the commands "cmake . && make package" and I get a package
>>> "project1.1-Linux.rpm". After that, I try to install that package with
>>> "yum install project1.1-Linux.rpm", I get some strange dependency
>>> resolution errors, which would look like this
>>>
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Error: Package: project1.1-1.x86_64 (/project1.1-Linux)
>>>            Requires: liblibrary.so.0()(64bit)
>>>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not certain why that dependency problem occurs - will have to look
>> into it a bit further but it seems to be rpm issue (somehow it gets
>> the file dependencies wrong with symlinks to symlinks).
>>
>> As a workaround you could disable auto requirements generation by setting:
>> set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_AUTOREQ "NO")
>>
>> Regards,
>> Domen
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