Hello Andreas, >> Although I do not understand why upstream are manually building these... > > If you are into packaging a bit longer you will face way more crazy > ideas than this. Believe me, done this for > 20 years and have seen > a lot of crazy things. ;-) Thinking about this now, I think upstream did this to not break windows - linux cross-compability. Yet again, it should be done in a fashion as to check if not win32 and lib exists on the system and use that instead of downloading. I also spent around an hour or two patching and successfully building the realsense library only to find that this is an optional module not enabled by default in fast cmake - whoops :(. The quest to erradicate git as a dependency and migrate libs still continues :). This is an interestingly lengthy package. Luckily it's only QT and its seemingly many modules that is the major library that needs dealing with and then everything else is simpler and quicker. Best Regards, Shayan Doust On 08/08/2019 16:06, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 03:44:57PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: >> Hello Andreas, >> >> Thanks, that makes sense. I will patch anything that needs building >> instead of allowing git to download then build. >> >> Although right now, I am still in the process of migrating everything to >> use libs that have already been packaged and are available via apt, >> though until I go through everything one by one I won't be too sure as >> to what is not available via apt. >> >> Although I do not understand why upstream are manually building these... > > If you are into packaging a bit longer you will face way more crazy > ideas than this. Believe me, done this for > 20 years and have seen > a lot of crazy things. ;-) > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >
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