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Missing file error on 'make install'

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake, cpp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with thirdparty/internal_deps.cmake and reproduce the failure with make install using internal dependencies. Check how the fetched dependency source paths are resolved for the four nonstd headers, then verify that installation succeeds with version 1.3.2 and the headers are placed under the configured include destination.

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Description

I use internal deps, and make install fails due to some missing files in thirdparty (with version 1.3.2, dependencies are no more in submodules).

I had to apply the following patch.

I'm not used enough to cmake to know if there are variables that could be used to get the src dir of the fetched dependencies.

diff --git a/thirdparty/internal_deps.cmake b/thirdparty/internal_deps.cmake
index 44f0446..0976c8c 100644
--- a/thirdparty/internal_deps.cmake
+++ b/thirdparty/internal_deps.cmake
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ if (JINJA2CPP_BUILD_TESTS)
 endif()

 install (FILES
-        thirdparty/nonstd/expected-lite/include/nonstd/expected.hpp
-        thirdparty/nonstd/variant-lite/include/nonstd/variant.hpp
-        thirdparty/nonstd/optional-lite/include/nonstd/optional.hpp
-        thirdparty/nonstd/string-view-lite/include/nonstd/string_view.hpp
+       ${FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR}/expected-lite-src/include/nonstd/expected.hpp
+       ${FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR}/variant-lite-src/include/nonstd/variant.hpp
+       ${FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR}/optional-lite-src/include/nonstd/optional.hpp
+       ${FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR}/string-view-lite-src/include/nonstd/string_view.hpp
     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/nonstd)

 install (TARGETS RapidJson

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