[debhelper-devel] Bug#869697: cmake: set CMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run

[Niels Thykier]

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:11:12 +0200 Felix Geyer <fgeyer at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.6.4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Please add -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run to the flags passed to cmake.
> It is similar to --runstatedir for autoconf.
> 
> This flag is available since cmake 3.8. I've just pushed 3.9 into unstable.
> Before that 3.8 was only available in experimental so I wouldn't expect that
> any package uses it yet.
> 
> Thanks,
> Felix
> 
> 

Hi Felix,

If passed to a version of cmake that does not implement it, this will
silently degrade to a NOOP, right?.

Asking as I will be backporting debhelper to stretch-backports
eventually, so backporters may meet this.

Thanks,
~Niels