[packman] cmake-4 vs. lots of packages

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2025, 14:20:01 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> 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>

Forgot to mention, we should *not* publish these packages, but only use
them for build!

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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