Hi Ladislav,
First of all - I don't think this case is worth any further discussion.
I fully agree with you, that debian stable has particularly ancient
version of KiCAD and cmake.
Having said that....
On 7.02.2025 09:22, Ladislav Laska wrote:
Hi Rafal,
I don't know the details of the protobuf issue. However, I think the
comment above says it:
# Old versions of CMake and/or protobuf can require the FindProtobuf.cmake,
# but modern platforms require this to be off
Setting this to the ON value would likely break some up to date
platform. Other people would have to dig into documentation. In general,
recent software should be compatible with recent distributions. Debian
12 relesed on 2023 with kicad 6.0 that released 2021 and cmake 3.25
released in 2021. I think this qualifies as older version and you should
be expecting to run into issues. I'm surprised this is the only problem.
Exactly.
I wanted to suggest upgrading your distro to fix it, but while writing
this paragraph I noticed there seem to be newer cmake & kicad in
backports repository. Perhaps this would fix your problems and allow you
to build even newer versions? Repo bookworm-backports has cmake 3.31,
that should not require this switch. But I haven't tested.
But here I disagree. As I admit that current software versions (like
KiCAD v9) should take advantage of new tools as they become available.
At the same time it's worth keeping compatibility with (at least) one
earlier "generation" of the "environments". And debian stable is
something playing a role of such "just previous generation" quite well.
Then again. IMHO, using cmake (as opposed to automake/make) main purpose
is that one could easier take into account diversity of environments -
like keeping some backward compatibility... I thought (... but I
personally never needed that. Plain make worked just fine for me, so I'm
not particularly proficient in tweaking cmake setups).
But OK. I'm not complaining, and I'm not trying to push anything here.
Pls have my apologize for triggering this unintended noise on the list.
best regards to you all,
-R
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