[graysky]

Recently I cannot build 18.4 using distcc on Arch Linux.  I see errors relating to a missing fmt/format.h but it is clearly defined and there.  If I build without distcc, I do not see these errors.

Example:

Code:

...
[  5%] Building CXX object build/swig/CMakeFiles/python_binding.dir/AddonModuleXbmcwsgi.i.cpp.o
In file included from /build/kodi-haswell/src/xbmc-18.4-Leia/xbmc/utils/log.h:15,
                 from /build/kodi-haswell/src/xbmc-18.4-Leia/xbmc/interfaces/legacy/Exception.h:11,
                 from /build/kodi-haswell/src/xbmc-18.4-Leia/xbmc/interfaces/python/swig.h:15,
                 from /build/kodi-haswell/src/kodi-build/build/swig/AddonModuleXbmcgui.i.cpp:22:
/build/kodi-haswell/src/xbmc-18.4-Leia/xbmc/utils/StringUtils.h:29:10: fatal error: fmt/format.h: No such file or directory
   29 | #include <fmt/format.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
distcc[7799] ERROR: compile /build/kodi-haswell/src/kodi-build/build/swig/AddonModuleXbmcgui.i.cpp on localhost failed
make[2]: *** [build/swig/CMakeFiles/python_binding.dir/build.make:131: build/swig/CMakeFiles/python_binding.dir/AddonModuleXbmcgui.i.cpp.o] Error 1

Partial build.log using distcc.
Partial build.log without using distcc.

I am preparing the build like this:

Code:

  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DVERBOSE=ON \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib \
    -DENABLE_EVENTCLIENTS=ON \
    -DENABLE_INTERNAL_FFMPEG=ON \
    -DENABLE_INTERNAL_FMT=ON \
    -DENABLE_INTERNAL_CROSSGUID=ON \
    -DENABLE_INTERNAL_FSTRCMP=ON \
    -DENABLE_INTERNAL_FLATBUFFERS=ON \
    -Dlibdvdcss_URL="/libdvdcss-1.4.2-Leia-Beta-5.tar.gz" \
    -Dlibdvdnav_URL="/libdvdnav-6.0.0-Leia-Alpha-3.tar.gz" \
    -Dlibdvdread_URL="/libdvdread-6.0.0-Leia-Alpha-3.tar.gz" \
    -DFFMPEG_URL="/ffmpeg-4.0.4-Leia-18.4.tar.gz" \
    -DFMT_URL="/fmt-5.1.0.tar.gz" \
    -DCROSSGUID_URL="/crossguid-8f399e8bd4.tar.gz" \
    -DFSTRCMP_URL="/fstrcmp-0.7.D001.tar.gz" \
    -DFLATBUFFERS_URL="/flatbuffers-1.9.0.tar.gz" \
    -DENABLE_MARIADBCLIENT=ON \
    -DENABLE_MYSQLCLIENT=OFF \
    -DENABLE_AIRTUNES=OFF \
    -DENABLE_AVAHI=OFF \
    -DENABLE_BLUETOOTH=OFF \
    -DENABLE_CEC=OFF \
    -DENABLE_OPTICAL=OFF \
    -DENABLE_SMBCLIENT=OFF \
    -DENABLE_UPNP=OFF \
    -DENABLE_VDPAU=OFF \
    ../"xbmc-18.4-Leia"
  make
  make preinstall

[fritsch]

Rechi said on IRC: python-bindings miss fmt dependency. Can you send a PR?

[graysky]

Rechi said on IRC: python-bindings miss fmt dependency. Can you send a PR?

I am not knowledgeable to figure out which files are affected or to modify them
EDIT: or did you mean log the issue not send a fix.  https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/16923