Hi, On 16.07.2017 23:52, Christian Seiler wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.2.5 > Severity: important > Control: affects -1 cmake > X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-cmake-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Dear debhelper Maintainers, > (Cc'ing CMake packaging list as this affects them) > > I just stubmled upon a feature added to CMake 3.x that allows packages > to register in a "package registry" via the export() CMake command. > This causes CMake to write into the home dirctory of a user. I believe > this is not desireable when building Debian packages - the registry in > the home directory should be ignored. When looking for packages only > the system registry should be queried (but that does need to happen, > otherwise builds may break), and the export() command should be > disabled completely. > > Documentation for this: > > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.9/manual/cmake-packages.7.html#package-registry > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/export.html > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.9/manual/cmake-packages.7.html#disabling-the-package-registry > https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14849 > > It should be sufficient to pass > > -DCMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON > -DCMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
debhelper should indeed pass those flags to cmake. Thanks for bringing this up. I don't expect any breakage since packages would have to set HOME to something writable in order to use the user registry in some form. Felix
