Building Debian packages on Debian systems doesn't work

[RalfGoebel]

Hi,

We are building the OpenEB Debian packages for Debian 10 and 11 systems, because our embedded devices do not support Ubuntu.
The CMake target public_deb_packages used to work with OpenEB 2.2, but not anymore.

I think the problem is in python3.cmake, line 124:

openeb/cmake/custom_functions/python3.cmake

Line 124 in 92aa7c1

set (PYTHON3_DEFAULT_VERSION "3.6")

To fix the problem, I have replaced the line with:
list(GET PYBIND11_PYTHON_VERSIONS 0 PYTHON3_DEFAULT_VERSION)

I also added "3.9" to the variable PYTHON3_ALL_VERSIONS in line 119 to make it work with Debian 11:

openeb/cmake/custom_functions/python3.cmake

Line 119 in 92aa7c1

set (PYTHON3_ALL_VERSIONS "3.6;3.7;3.8")

Thanks,
Ralf

[laurentbristiel]

Hi Ralf,
(belated) thanks for your feedback.
Your fix is legit and might help other people trying to compile OpenEB on Debiant 10/11.
At the moment we can not include this change in OpenEB because we don't have the proper CI env/tools to test another version of Python, but we will try to improve this in the future.
Laurent

[biphasic]

@RalfGoebel thanks for posting this. I'm also tied to Debian