Doesn't build with pkg-config error

[Boria138]

pkgconfig.prov: ERROR: %_usrsrc/tmp/librapidcheck-devel-buildroot/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/rapidcheck.pc: invalid pkg-config output: rapidcheck =

[stephan-cr]

Do you obtained Rapidcheck through some Linux distribution or BSD? If yes, could you tell us which one.

To me it looks similar to #324.

[Boria138]

Do you obtained Rapidcheck through some Linux distribution or BSD? If yes, could you tell us which one.

To me it looks similar to #324.
I am the maintainer of nix in ALT Linux. To pass the tests during compilation, I also wanted to compile rapidcheck, but the compilation failed due to the absence of the version in pkgconfig. The pc files themselves are correct.

cat rapidcheck.pc 
  Name: rapidcheck
  Description: C++ framework for property-based testing inspired by QuickCheck
  and other similar frameworks.
  Version: 
  Requires: 
  prefix=/usr
  includedir=${prefix}/include
  libdir=${prefix}/lib
  Libs: 
  Cflags: -I${includedir}

[stephan-cr]

I'm not familiar with ALT Linux, but I guess rapidcheck is not packaged correctly. To me looks like the packager is passing the path to the staging area to CMake, via -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, instead of just /usr (or whatever is the final installation path on ALT Linux or Nix). To move the build package to the staging area, DESTDIR should be used during cmake --install instead. See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines (I'm sorry to send a reference to ArchLinux here :-)).

Note, it's just my guess. Nevertheless, I think it's a packaging issue, not an issue of rapidcheck itself.

[Boria138]

I'm not familiar with ALT Linux, but I guess rapidcheck is not packaged correctly. To me looks like the packager is passing the path to the staging area to CMake, via -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, instead of just /usr (or whatever is the final installation path on ALT Linux or Nix). To move the build package to the staging area, DESTDIR should be used during cmake --install instead. See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines (I'm sorry to send a reference to ArchLinux here :-)).

Note, it's just my guess. Nevertheless, I think it's a packaging issue, not an issue of rapidcheck itself.

Since ALT Linux is an rpm based distribution, it's just like Fedora with macros.

# Macros for cmake
#
%__cmake cmake
%_cmake__builddir %_target_platform
%_cmake_skip_rpath -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON

%_cmakedir %_libdir/cmake

%cmake \
 mkdir -p %_cmake__builddir; \
 %__cmake \\\.
        -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5.
        -DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH:BOOL=yes.
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING='%optflags'\\\
        -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING='%optflags' \\\.
        -DCMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS:STRING='%optflags' \\\.
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%prefix.
        -DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%_includedir\\\
        -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%_libdir \\\.
        -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%_sysconfdir \\\.
        -DSHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=%_datadir \\\.
        -DLIB_DESTINATION=%_lib \\\\.
        -DLIB_SUFFIX="%_libsuff" \\\ .
    -S . -B "%_cmake__builddir"

# Notice: this macro affects _cmake__builddir, effectively preventing further
# out-of-source builds. Maintainers opting to build in-source are not
# interested in those, though.
%cmake_insource {
 %define _cmake__builddir . \ {
 %cmake

%cmake_build %__cmake --build "%_cmake__builddir" --verbose --parallel %_smp_build_ncpus

%cmake_install DESTDIR="%buildroot" %__cmake --install "%_cmake__builddir" --verbose

%prefix is /usr %buildroot is $srcdir if you use Arch as an example, so I don't think there is a packaging error, the error is that the Version field is missing from the pc files.