Unusual behaviour in KDE Connect CMake

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:50 PM Piyush Aggarwal <piyushaggarwal002 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 3:04 PM Piyush Aggarwal <
> piyushaggarwal002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll get right on it
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Apr, 2021, 3:02 pm Ben Cooksley, <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Recently changes were made to kdeconnect-kde that introduced new
>>> dependencies that broke the build on Windows.
>>>
>>
> This should be fixed by the
> https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/80178b8ff80c1e42692b309880d6f1435c62ce4e
> . Please poke the CI once so I can be sure.
>

Thanks. I've taken a look and it appears that it has corrected the build
failure - which means we are now in the same situation as earlier, where
the testing phase cleans up the dbus-daemon processes that are launched by
the CMake configure phase (which stops it from breaking the node entirely,
but is still not perfect)


>
>
>>> While this in itself is an issue, it has exposed a much more significant
>>> issue which requires urgent remediation as it breaks any Windows build node
>>> that attempts to carry out a build of kdeconnect. These breakages require
>>> manual Sysadmin intervention to correct.
>>>
>>
> This issue needs to be fixed appropriately. I wrote a way to kill
> dbus-daemon.exe with Win APIs in the kdeconnect-kde source, used here:
> https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/blob/master/indicator/main.cpp#L106
> . The Function's definition is here:
> https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/blob/master/indicator/indicatorhelper_win.cpp#L48
> . Please let me know if I can be of help and integrate it somewhere in
> Craft/ the CI.
>

The C++ code is completely innocent in this case, one of the checks being
run by CMake as part of the configure-time step is the cause of this issue.
Do you have any kdeconnect-kde specific checks in there that call custom
binaries / code to search for specific dependencies by any chance?


>
> As this creates persistent issues for other projects and because a new
>>> dependency was introduced without notification, the following is notice
>>> that Windows CI support for kdeconnect-kde will be terminated in 12 hours
>>> time should steps to resolve this not be taken.
>>>
>>
> I apologize for the mishap and the inconvenience caused to the other
> projects. This was not intended.
>
> Best
> Piyush Aggarwal
> from the KDE Connect Team
>
>
Thanks,
Ben
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