kicad no longer building on osx

[xzcvczx]

If you have python enabled in nightlies its no longer building on osx. this was bought up on the list prior to the commit being merged that broke it but it was ignored.

Documenting it here as noone was willing to describe the changes made in the commit so working out where the issue was is rather difficult due to the size of the cmakelists

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Please attach the failed build output. Maybe one of us non-osx devs can
figure out what's happening by the build error.

On 3/4/2017 10:41 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> If you have python enabled in nightlies its no longer building on osx.
> this was bought up on the list prior to the commit being merged that
> broke it but it was ignored.
>
> Documenting it here as noone was willing to describe the changes made in
> the commit so working out where the issue was is rather difficult due to
> the size of the cmakelists
>
> ** Affects: kicad
> Importance: High
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: kicad
> Importance: Undecided => High
>

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

Error copying file "_pcbnew.kiface" to "_pcbnew.so".

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Users/simon/kicad-app/kicad/pcbnew/_pcbnew', needed by `pcbnew/CMakeFiles/ScriptingModulesPcbnewSoCopy'. Stop.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

It appears that the dependency for the ScriptingModulesPcbnewSoCopy
target is wrong.

pcbnew/CMakeLists.txt line 728 should read

            DEPENDS pcbnew_kiface

not

            DEPENDS _pcbnew

The pcbnew_kiface target (_pcbnew.kiface gets copied to
_pcbnew.${PYMOD_EXT} at build time and installed in ${PYTHON_DEST} at
install time on windows and linux. I'm not sure what the appropriate
steps would be for osx.

To be honest this entire elseif( APPLE ) section makes no sense to me.
Why are we copying files instead of installing them on osx? I thought
osx bundles were analogous to Debian packages which has nothing to do
with running `make install`.

On 3/4/2017 3:02 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> Error copying file "_pcbnew.kiface" to "_pcbnew.so".
>
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Users/simon/kicad-
> app/kicad/pcbnew/_pcbnew', needed by
> `pcbnew/CMakeFiles/ScriptingModulesPcbnewSoCopy'. Stop.
>

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

that is partly why i tried to get input on my changes from dick before
this was merged as i was stuck and my changes included moving to
install for most stuff

On 5 March 2017 at 09:57, Wayne Stambaugh <email address hidden> wrote:
> It appears that the dependency for the ScriptingModulesPcbnewSoCopy
> target is wrong.
>
> pcbnew/CMakeLists.txt line 728 should read
>
> DEPENDS pcbnew_kiface
>
> not
>
> DEPENDS _pcbnew
>
> The pcbnew_kiface target (_pcbnew.kiface gets copied to
> _pcbnew.${PYMOD_EXT} at build time and installed in ${PYTHON_DEST} at
> install time on windows and linux. I'm not sure what the appropriate
> steps would be for osx.
>
> To be honest this entire elseif( APPLE ) section makes no sense to me.
> Why are we copying files instead of installing them on osx? I thought
> osx bundles were analogous to Debian packages which has nothing to do
> with running `make install`.
>
>
> On 3/4/2017 3:02 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
>> Error copying file "_pcbnew.kiface" to "_pcbnew.so".
>>
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Users/simon/kicad-
>> app/kicad/pcbnew/_pcbnew', needed by
>> `pcbnew/CMakeFiles/ScriptingModulesPcbnewSoCopy'. Stop.
>>
>
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>
> Title:
> kicad no longer building on osx
>
> Status in KiCad:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> If you have python enabled in nightlies its no longer building on osx.
> this was bought up on the list prior to the commit being merged that
> broke it but it was ignored.
>
> Documenting it here as noone was willing to describe the changes made
> in the commit so working out where the issue was is rather difficult
> due to the size of the cmakelists
>
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[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

As this still hasn't been fixed there seems to be a deeper issue here. A fix was proposed on the forum but that one also didn't work for fresh builds. Can we revert this fix until a decent solution is found as this is not it.

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Is this still an issue? Currently the CI server is able to build KiCad for OSX [1].

1. http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/osx-kicad-adam-head/