<div dir="ltr"><div>I got this, but it was extremely fast compiling. I think it was using some kind of cache</div><div><br></div><div>ls -lh proj-9.8.0*<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 jshaw jshaw 5.8M Feb 23 16:59 proj-9.8.0.tar.gz<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 jshaw jshaw 6.1M Feb 23 16:59 proj-9.8.0.zip<br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 16:51, Kristian Evers via PROJ <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’m in the process of preparing 9.8.0RC1 but seem to have hit a bit of an issue with CMake that I can’t make sense of.<br>
In short, empty archives are produced when running "cmake --build . --target dist”.<br>
<br>
As usual I follow the recipe in HOWTO-RELEASE:<br>
<br>
$ BRANCH_NAME=9.8<br>
$ git clone --depth 1 --branch $BRANCH_NAME <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ.git" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ.git</a> PROJ-$BRANCH_NAME<br>
$ cd PROJ-$BRANCH_NAME<br>
$ mkdir _build && cd _build<br>
$ cmake -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF ..<br>
$ cmake --build . --target dist<br>
<br>
Looking at the produced files shows they are empty:<br>
<br>
$ ls -lh proj-9.8.0*<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 29B Feb 23 16:31 proj-9.8.0.tar.gz<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 22B Feb 23 16:31 proj-9.8.0.zip<br>
<br>
Oddly enough, if I do a similar thing within my git repo I succeed:<br>
<br>
$ mkdir build && cd build<br>
$ cmake -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF ..<br>
$ cmake --build . --target dist<br>
$ ls -lh proj-*<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 6.4M Feb 23 16:38 proj-9.8.0.tar.gz<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 6.9M Feb 23 16:38 proj-9.8.0.zip<br>
<br>
I see that a few things have changed in CMakeLists.txt but nothing that seems related. Could someone try to reproduce this? <br>
<br>
/Kristian<br>
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