Smuxi fails to build on Debian bookworm using dpkg-buildpackage

[meebey]

Smuxi fails to build on Debian bookworm using dpkg-buildpackage

[jeremyp3]

I confirm that it works!

thanks !

[meebey]

Thank you for reporting this build issue. The CI builds are not catching this problem.

./Frontend.cs(192,69): error CS0234: The type or namespace name `RuntimeInformation' does not exist in the namespace `System.Runtime.InteropServices'. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Looks like a build regression that was introduced by the .NET runtime detection in f4f37c7

Please upload the output of a ./configure run so I can add appropriate Mono version checks before using RuntimeInformation.

[jeremyp3]

I don't know if I understood what you want
configure.txt

[jeremyp3]

I take this opportunity to add the mono packages that are installed
dpkg-mono.txt

[meebey]

These 2 output files were exactly what I needed to triage the problem.

So Mono 6.8 doesn't provide the RuntimeInformation type. The CI build with Mono 6.12 works, so the fix will be to only call RuntimeInformation if Mono >= 6.12. I will make a patch for this.

If you don't want to wait you can just comment the line 199 and 200 in src/Frontend-GNOME/Frontend.cs and you should get Smuxi 1.2.1 compiled on your Debian system.

[jeremyp3]

on the other hand, what makes me question, as I said in my first post, is that if I don't try to make a debian package, I can compile smuxi 1.2.1. it's just with the debian package that I have this error.
since my English is not great, I just wanted to make sure I explained my issue well :)

[meebey]

Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it always failed on Debian Bookworm, regardless of how trying to build it.
So dpkg-buildpackage fails while ./configure && make works.

In that case, please upload the full output of a dpkg-buildpackage run. Your output-build-smuxi.txt file seem to be only the output of a "make" run, so I focused on that.

[jeremyp3]

I'm sorry I sent the wrong thing
to clean everything, I did a make clean && make distclean.
then I made a dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc and here is the output
dpkg-buildpackage-smuxi.txt

[meebey]

I pushed a commit that should fix the problem. Please try dpkg-buildpackage from this branch: https://github.com/meebey/smuxi/tree/debian_fix

[jeremyp3]

it still doesn't work, but it seems to go further
make clean && make distclean
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage-branch-debian_fix.txt

[meebey]

@jeremyp3 I could reproduce your build error on Debian. If you try the https://github.com/meebey/smuxi/tree/debian_ci branch it should now build for you.