<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I had a hunch it was a problem on my end. No clue what it is though… Probably MacOS being difficult again.<div><br/></div><div>I’ve pasted the output from CMake below in case anyone can see a problem in it.</div><div><br/></div><div>Could one of you send me a copy of the files you produced? At least I can upload those in case I don’t figure</div><div>out what’s going today.</div><div><br/></div><div>/Kristian</div><div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><div>$ cmake -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF ..</div><div>-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 17.0.0.17000603</div><div>-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 17.0.0.17000603</div><div>-- Detecting C compiler ABI info</div><div>-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done</div><div>-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped</div><div>-- Detecting C compile features</div><div>-- Detecting C compile features - done</div><div>-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info</div><div>-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done</div><div>-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped</div><div>-- Detecting CXX compile features</div><div>-- Detecting CXX compile features - done</div><div>-- Requiring C++17</div><div>-- Requiring C++17 - done</div><div>-- Requiring C99</div><div>-- Requiring C99 - done</div><div>-- Configuring PROJ:</div><div>-- PROJ_VERSION = 9.8.0</div><div>-- Looking for localeconv</div><div>-- Looking for localeconv - found</div><div>-- Looking for strerror</div><div>-- Looking for strerror - found</div><div>-- Looking for dladdr in dl</div><div>-- Looking for dladdr in dl - found</div><div>-- Looking for exp in m</div><div>-- Looking for exp in m - found</div><div>-- BUNDLEDIR = Applications/OSGEO</div><div>-- PROJ_INSTALL_NAME_DIR = @executable_path/../../Library/Frameworks</div><div>-- FRAMEWORKDIR = Library/Frameworks</div><div>-- nlohmann/json: internal</div><div>-- Found SQLite3: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib/libsqlite3.tbd (found version "3.51.0")</div><div>-- Found TIFF: /opt/homebrew/lib/libtiff.dylib (found version "4.7.1")</div><div>-- Found CURL: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib/libcurl.tbd (found version "8.7.1")</div><div>-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD</div><div>-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success</div><div>-- Found Threads: TRUE</div><div>-- Testing disabled</div><div>-- Configuring proj library:</div><div>-- ENABLE_IPO = OFF</div><div>-- PROJ_OUTPUT_NAME = proj</div><div>-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = ON</div><div>-- PROJ_LIBRARIES = proj</div><div>-- PROJ: Configured 'dist' target</div><div>-- EMBED_RESOURCE_FILES=OFF</div><div>-- Configuring done (2.4s)</div><div>-- Generating done (0.1s)</div><div>-- Build files have been written to: /Users/kevers/dev/proj/build/PROJ-9.8/_build</div><div><br/></div><div><div>$ cmake --build . --target dist</div><div>Run CPack packaging tool for source...</div><div>CPack: Create package using TGZ</div><div>CPack: Install projects</div><div>CPack: - Install directory: /Users/kevers/dev/proj/build/PROJ-9.8</div><div>CPack: Create package</div><div>CPack: - package: /Users/kevers/dev/proj/build/PROJ-9.8/_build/proj-9.8.0.tar.gz generated.</div><div>CPack: Create package using ZIP</div><div>CPack: Install projects</div><div>CPack: - Install directory: /Users/kevers/dev/proj/build/PROJ-9.8</div><div>CPack: Create package</div><div>CPack: - package: /Users/kevers/dev/proj/build/PROJ-9.8/_build/proj-9.8.0.zip generated.</div><div>Built target dist</div></div><div><br/></div><div><div>$ ls -lh proj-*</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 29B Feb 23 16:31 proj-9.8.0.tar.gz</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 kevers staff 22B Feb 23 16:31 proj-9.8.0.zip</div></div><div><br/><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Feb 2026, at 17.01, Javier Jimenez Shaw <j1@jimenezshaw.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div><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/>
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As usual I follow the recipe in HOWTO-RELEASE:<br/>
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$ 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/>
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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/>
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Oddly enough, if I do a similar thing within my git repo I succeed:<br/>
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$ 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/>
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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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