Build fails on Bitcoin Core macOS native CI

[Sjors]

When trying to build from source on the macOS 14 native, arm64, no depends, sqlite only, gui machine, it fails:

+ git clone https://github.com/chaincodelabs/libmultiprocess.git
Cloning into 'libmultiprocess'...
+ cd libmultiprocess
+ mkdir build
+ cd build
+ cmake ..
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 15.0.0.15000040
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode_15.0.1.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found ZLIB: /Applications/Xcode_15.0.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX14.0.sdk/usr/lib/libz.tbd (found version "1.2.12")
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_THREADID_NP
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_THREADID_NP - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_GETTHREADID_NP
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_GETTHREADID_NP - Failed
-- Configuring done (1.7s)
-- Generating done (0.0s)
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/runner/work/bitcoin/bitcoin/libmultiprocess/build
+ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
Error: Process completed with exit code 2.

https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/actions/runs/11212400343/job/31163333157?pr=65

The approach of building from source rather than using the depends system is probably not a good idea anyway, but I'm surprised it fails.

capnp is installed via Homebrew.

[ryanofsky]

Note: code for triggering this is:

Sjors/bitcoin@ca14e83#diff-b088baf93122a28210fe5ebdb9d5c3100813aac183b8362095c2c2d05051d70dR95-R105

Based on error "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." it seems like this is happening because cmake is not generating a Makefile, which might be the case because bitcoin CI changes the default cmake backend to ninja instead of make:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/62e4516722115c2d5aeb6c197abc73ca7c078b23/ci/test/00_setup_env_mac_native.sh#L13

Probably the easiest way to fix the build failure would be to change cmake command line in ci/test/01_base_install.sh from cmake .. to cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..

But another way could be to change make and make install commands there to cmake --build . and cmake --install .

[Sjors]

The latter seems more intuitive, (and I'll try that).

[Sjors]

I ended up using cmake --build and (sudo) cmake --install in #30975, which works for macos-native-arm64 jobs on macOS as well.