CMake < 3.11 doesn't support add_library() without any source file
(i.e add_library(foo SHARED)). But flann CMake use a trick that use
an empty string "" as source list (i.e add_library(foo SHARED "")).
This look like a bug in CMake < 3.11.
With CMake >= 3.11, the new behaviour of add_library() break the
existing flann CMake code.
>From CMake Changelog [1]:
"add_library() and add_executable() commands can now be called without
any sources and will not complain as long as sources are added later
via the target_sources() command."
Note: flann CMake code doesn't use target_sources() since no source file
are provided intentionally since the flann shared library is created by
linking with the flann_cpp_s static library with this line:
target_link_libraries(flann_cpp -Wl,-whole-archive flann_cpp_s -Wl,-no-whole-archive)
If you try to use "add_library(flann_cpp SHARED ${CPP_SOURCES})" (as it should
be normally done), the link fail due to already defined symbol.
They are building the shared version using the static library "to speedup the
build time" [3]
This issue is already reported upstream [2] with a proposed solution.
Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b2f/b2febfaf8c44ce477b3e4a5b9b976fd25e8d7454
[1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.11/release/3.11.html
[2] https://github.com/mariusmuja/flann/issues/369
[3] 0fd62b43be
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>
Cc: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
