[QGIS-Developer] qgis build fails with cmake 3.18.2, NetBSD, quoting of $

[Peter Petrik]

Hi,
looks like duplicate  of https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38103
I fixed it by using of ninja instead of make

P.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 7:17 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> I co-maintain the pkgsrc entry for qgis (and also look after proj, gdal,
> postgis).
>
> pkgsrc uses gmake because there are file names with spaces (json help),
> and there is some quoting problem with BSD make.  (Also because of the
> present issue with $ quoting.)
>
> pkgsrc currently has 3.10.7 (yes, I know I should update to 3.10.10),
> which builds fine with cmake 3.17.3 on NetBSD, when qgis is built with
> gmake.
>
> With our current cmake 3.18.2 (or .1), the build fails because a
> generated makefile:
>
>   work/qgis-3.10.7/build/src/core/CMakeFiles/qgis_core.dir/build.make
>
> escapes e.g. resources/function_help/json/$area to have four dollar signs:
>
>   src/core/qgsexpression_texts.cpp:
> ../resources/function_help/json/$$$$area
>
> rather than the two $ that gmake expects.  (However, BSD make, which we
> don't use, wants 4, for complicated and perhaps not valid reasons.)
>
> My working (but unsupported by reality) theory is that cmake is trying
> to accomodate BSD make and overquoting $, but is doing so because it is
> running on NetBSD, rather than because it knows BSD make will be used to
> build.  However, I don't see this in the release notes.
>
> So far there have not been reports of other programs not building, but
> qgis is unusual in that it has files with $ in them.
>
> I am looking for a minimal fix to patch qgis or cmake to make this
> build.
>
> Hints would be appreciated on the following subjects:
>
>   cmake really did or didn't change quoting of $
>
>   The extra quoting is or isn't something somehow done by qgis.
>
>   The questions I really should have asked, if I understtood this
>   better.
>
>   This is fixed in 3.10.10 :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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