[packman] cmake-4 vs. lots of packages

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2025, 14:10:28 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, 14:58:00 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > now that we got cmake-4 in Tumbleweed, lots of packages in Packman fail
> > to build. This includes Kodi, Handbrake and others.
> > 
> > What do others think? Should we try to fix the packages? I looked at
> > Kodi, but gave up in the end as the package uses other components which
> > haven't been ported/adapted to cmake-4. I assume a new release of Kodi
> > might eventually include fixes for this, but as long as there is no such
> > new release, it won't build anymore. For Handbrake the situation is very
> > similar.
> > 
> > Shall we create an A_tw-cmake which remains at version 3.x level?
> 
> I have created my own home:manfred-h/A_tw-cmake package using the last
> cmake-3 version contained in Slowroll. With this Kodi and Handbrake
> build properly as expected. Looking at the various failing packages in
> Multimedia, it turns out that appr. 9 packages fail due to Tumbleweed's
> cmake-4.
> 
> I'll submit my package to Essentials for both Tumbleweed and Slowroll as
> the latter one will probably also upgrade to cmake-4.
> 
> Please someone accept the request so we can work again. Thx!

<https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/6303>

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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