Tests fail to link: ld: error: unable to find library -lcppunit

[yurivict]

[100% 1/1] : && /usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++ -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing  -isystem /usr/local/include -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing  -isystem /usr/local/include  -DNDEBUG -fstack-protector-strong CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/cppunit.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/conversiontests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/iotests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/chronotests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/argumentparsertests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/traitstests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/mathtests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/misctests.cpp.o -o c++utilities_tests  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/ports/devel/cpp-utilities/work/.build:/usr/local/lib  -lcppunit  libc++utilities.so.5.24.0  /usr/local/lib/libboost_iostreams.so  /usr/local/lib/libboost_regex.so && :
FAILED: c++utilities_tests 
: && /usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++ -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing  -isystem /usr/local/include -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing  -isystem /usr/local/include  -DNDEBUG -fstack-protector-strong CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/cppunit.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/conversiontests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/iotests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/chronotests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/argumentparsertests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/traitstests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/mathtests.cpp.o CMakeFiles/c++utilities_tests.dir/tests/misctests.cpp.o -o c++utilities_tests  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/ports/devel/cpp-utilities/work/.build:/usr/local/lib  -lcppunit  libc++utilities.so.5.24.0  /usr/local/lib/libboost_iostreams.so  /usr/local/lib/libboost_regex.so && :
ld: error: unable to find library -lcppunit
c++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
*** Error code 1

It looks like pkg-config's output is ignored:

$ pkg-config --libs cppunit
-L/usr/local/lib -lcppunit 

[Martchus]

I've just been looking at the CMake code and I guess finding CppUnit needs to be improved. The lookup is also not completely unreasonable, though. So I am wondering whether the build system even used pkg-config at all in your case? If Cppunit not detected via pkg-config so the version couldn't be checked. shows up in the configuration logs then that's not the case and it had to resort to find_library. You can set CPP_UNIT_LIB and CPP_UNIT_INCLUDE_DIR to workaround this for now.

[Martchus]

I've just pushed a potential fix (5ebbd0e) so you might try building the latest commit on GitHub.

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