obenergy.cpp:11:10: fatal error: openbabel/babelconfig.h

[kevinsmia1939]

Avogadro version: (please complete the following information from the About box):

• Avogadrolibs: commit: 509ca48
• Qt: 5.15.10

Desktop version: (please complete the following information):
Build from source with Flatpak.
Avogadrolib commit: 509ca48
cmake version 3.27.9
gcc (GCC) 12.2.0
flatpak-builder-1.4.0

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240216
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0

Describe the bug
I am building Avogadro 2 as Flatpak but Avogadrolib failed to build.
The build flag -DBUILD_GPL_PLUGINS:BOOL=ON cause the error when trying to build the plugins.

[ 66%] Linking CXX static library ../../../lib/avogadro2/staticplugins/PropertyTables.a
[ 67%] Automatic MOC for target ColorOpacityMap
[ 67%] Automatic MOC for target Spectra
In file included from /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/obmmenergy.h:9,
                 from /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/forcefield.cpp:8:
/run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/calc/energycalculator.h: In member function ‘virtual bool Avogadro::Calc::EnergyCalculator::setConfiguration(Avogadro::Core::VariantMap&)’:
/run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/calc/energycalculator.h:54:51: warning: unused parameter ‘config’ [-Wunused-parameter]
   54 |   virtual bool setConfiguration(Core::VariantMap& config) { return true; }
      |                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
In file included from /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/obmmenergy.h:9,
                 from /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/obmmenergy.cpp:6:
/run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/calc/energycalculator.h: In member function ‘virtual bool Avogadro::Calc::EnergyCalculator::setConfiguration(Avogadro::Core::VariantMap&)’:
/run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/calc/energycalculator.h:54:51: warning: unused parameter ‘config’ [-Wunused-parameter]
   54 |   virtual bool setConfiguration(Core::VariantMap& config) { return true; }
      |                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
[ 67%] Automatic MOC for target PlotPdf
/run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/obenergy.cpp:11:10: fatal error: openbabel/babelconfig.h: No such file or directory
   11 | #include <openbabel/babelconfig.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

However, at the beginning, the log say that it found openbabel.

-- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.2.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Setting build type to 'Debug' as none was specified.
-- Performing Test HAVE_GCC_ERROR_RETURN_TYPE
-- Performing Test HAVE_GCC_ERROR_RETURN_TYPE - Success
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.43.0") 
-- Could not use git to determine source version, using version 1.99.0
-- Component omp of Spglib: NOT FOUND
-- Component fortran of Spglib: FOUND
-- Found package: Spglib
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR - Success
-- Found MMTF: /app/include  
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so   
-- Found GLEW: /app/include (found version "2.2.0") 
CMake Warning (dev) at avogadro/qtgui/CMakeLists.txt:22 (find_package):
  Policy CMP0148 is not set: The FindPythonInterp and FindPythonLibs modules
  are removed.  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0148" for policy details.  Use
  the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.10.13", minimum required is "3") 
-- Found OpenBabel3: /app/include  
Avogadro Generators not found at /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/../avogadrogenerators!
-- Found LibArchive: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libarchive.so (found version "3.7.2") 
-- Configuring done (2.4s)
-- Generating done (0.5s)
-- Build files have been written to: /run/build/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs/_flatpak_build

[ghutchis]

Somehow the include directory isn't set properly for openbabel - can you post the resulting CMakeCache file?

[kevinsmia1939]

CMakeCache.txt

Hi,
This is the file.
To make sure, the actual babelconfig.h is in app/include/openbabel3/openbabel/ .

Thanks.