Bug#951674: [Debichem-devel] Building Kalzium with OpenBabel: bad CMake module

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 08:31:12AM +0300, merkys@debian.org wrote:
> On 2020-07-19 00:31, John Scott wrote:
> > See the bug hunting at [1]: it seems that even in OpenBabel 3.1.1, 
> > the CMake module probably wrongfully hardcodes a path and makes it not work on 
> > Debian.
> 
> Indeed, there seems to be a problem with paths in OpenBabel CMake
> modules. OpenBabel3Config.cmake seems suspicious: ${OpenBabel3_DIR} does
> not seem to be set anywhere, and the following paths too get incorrect
> values:
> 
> * OpenBabel3_INCLUDE_DIRS: should be /usr/include/openbabel3
> * OpenBabel3_EXPORTS_FILE: should be
> /usr/lib/<triplet>/cmake/openbabel3/OpenBabel3_EXPORTS.cmake
> * OpenBabel3_LIBRARIES (maybe?)
> 
> Not sure if this issue is relevant outside Debian, hence the upstream
> confusion. I would suggest patching OpenBabel CMake modules in Debian. I
> volunteer to do that if no one comes up with a better solution.

Without having looked at the problem in detail, it sounds like it's
worth filing an issue in OpenBabel upstream as well, or is there one
already?


Michael