Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 - patch Control: retitle -1 make kgendesignerplugin useful for cross compilation
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:51:02PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > kpimtextedit fails to cross build from source, because it fails running > kgendesignerplugin with an Exec format error. Likely, kgendesignerplugin > needs to be marked Multi-Arch: foreign. I took a look into its > documentation and it seems that this tool converts ini-style > configuration files into C++ source. Since both are text formats, that'd > constitute an architecture-independent interface and thus would warrant > Multi-Arch: foreign. I'd like to thank you for having nicely split this > tool into a separate package. This splitting simplified the analysis. If > you agree, please apply the attached patch. I am very sorry: My analysis is wrong. The marking I requested is wrong. The reason is that I missed the cmake files that are also present in the binary package. It turns out, it wasn't split up into tiny enough pieces. During a cross build, cmake will now miss those cmake files. So I see basically two ways forward now: * We could move the cmake files to /usr/share/cmake. Beware that at least one of them contains a reference to some other cmake file and thus a path that matches /usr/lib/<triplet>/cmake/... That path would have to be adapted somehow for a successful move of the cmake files. * We split the cmake files into a separate package. Not exactly. We leave them where they are but move the actual kgendesignerplugin binary to a separate kgendesignerplugin-bin package and move the Multi-Arch: foreign marking to that new package having the original package (with the cmake files) depend on the new kgendesignerplugin-bin package. We did this a few times already introducing various -dev-bin packages. This is known to work. I'm slightly in favour of the former solution, because fewer packages are generally better. Still that might not be possible and I don't have a patch for that either. All I can do is hope that someone from the kde team understands this and makes it work. Helmut
