Retropie-setup: PowerBlock fails to build since installation updates

Created on 3 Oct 2019 · 9Comments · Source: RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

Haven't put a forum posting as there is no need to confirm this.

The changes in https://github.com/petrockblog/PowerBlock/commit/0f26e06826aa8d05131a1c313088ce65902bfc6d had removed the CMakeLists.txt causing the following build issue of the PowerBlock driver when updating RetroPie:

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Getting sources for 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Already up-to-date.
HEAD is now in branch 'master' at commit 'a7db2cb574a1fc046474bd1eca8d25288aaeab2c'
/home/pi

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Building 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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CMake Error: The source directory "/opt/retropie/supplementary/powerblock" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
Could not successfully build powerblock - PowerBlock Driver (/opt/retropie/supplementary/powerblock/build/src/powerblock/powerblock not found).

Looks like https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/powerblock.sh needs some rework for the new installation method mentioned in:

https://github.com/petrockblog/PowerBlock#installation

Source

iasdeoupxe

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@petrockblog - you ok for me to look into this or would you prefer to ?

joolswills on 4 Oct 2019

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Sorry, forgot to mention that i also had to delete the "docs" folder in /opt/retropie/supplementary/powerblockbecause it seems the installation had created / modified some files within the repository causing thegit pull` command to fail:

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Installing dependencies for 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/powerblock /home/pi

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Getting sources for 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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Already on 'master'
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/doxygen.css
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/index.html
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/jquery.js
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/search/search.css
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/search/search.js
M       doc/htmlDoc/html/tabs.css
M       doc/htmlDoc/latex/doxygen.sty
M       doc/htmlDoc/latex/refman.tex
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
From https://github.com/petrockblog/PowerBlock
   30485df..a7db2cb  master        -> origin/master
 * [new tag]         release/1.5.0 -> release/1.5.0
 * [new tag]         release/2.0.0 -> release/2.0.0
 * [new tag]         release/1.6.0 -> release/1.6.0
 * [new tag]         release/1.6.1 -> release/1.6.1
 * [new tag]         release/1.6.2 -> release/1.6.2
 * [new tag]         release/1.6.3 -> release/1.6.3
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        doc/htmlDoc/html/doxygen.css
        doc/htmlDoc/html/index.html
        doc/htmlDoc/html/jquery.js
        doc/htmlDoc/html/search/search.css
        doc/htmlDoc/html/search/search.js
        doc/htmlDoc/html/tabs.css
        doc/htmlDoc/latex/doxygen.sty
        doc/htmlDoc/latex/refman.tex
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting
Updating 30485df..a7db2cb
HEAD is now in branch 'master' at commit '30485dfe9e0341a442ffdc1efa9048c2fcbfccd0'
/home/pi
Error running 'git pull' - returned 1

iasdeoupxe on 4 Oct 2019

@joolswills Thanks a lot for the offer! I have just created a pull-request (#2862 ) that should solve the issue. However, I have not tested those changes yet myself. Sorry! I should be able to test them during this weekend, though.

petrockblog on 4 Oct 2019

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Cheers!

joolswills on 5 Oct 2019

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Confirming that #2862 / c8d27116ecf5c05c0abfe672b12a463bb4661af5 to fix the build issue:

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Getting sources for 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Already up-to-date.
HEAD is now in branch 'master' at commit 'a7db2cb574a1fc046474bd1eca8d25288aaeab2c'
/home/pi

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Installing 'powerblock' : PowerBlock Driver
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
git is already the newest version (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Cloning into 'PowerBlock'...
make: *** No rule to make target 'uninstallservice'.  Stop.
Starting powerblock (via systemctl): powerblock.service.
Installation of PowerBlock service done.
[SUCCESS] The PowerBlock driver binary is installed
[SUCCESS] The PowerBlock service is running
You can find the configuration file at /etc/powerblockconfig.cfg.

and

Oct 11 04:49:02 pi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: powerblock init script...
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi systemd[1]: Started LSB: powerblock init script.
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi powerblockservice: Starting PowerBlock driver, version 2.0.0
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi powerblockservice: Shutdown is ACTIVATED
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi powerblockservice: Shutdown Pin is 18
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi powerblockservice: Status Pin is 17
Oct 11 04:49:02 pi powerblockservice: Setting RPi status signal to HIGH

@petrockblog @joolswills I leave it up to you if https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/2860#issuecomment-538325954 worth a fix or if the issue should be closed as "workaround exists" (which is to make a git checkout -- in /opt/retropie/supplementary/powerblock/).

Thanks to both of you for handling this issue :+1:

iasdeoupxe on 11 Oct 2019

I fixed this with PR #2862. No workaround needed anymore.

petrockblog on 12 Oct 2019

@petrockblog Please correct me if i'm wrong but i don't see something in #2862 which could prevent/fix the "Error running 'git pull' - returned 1" message shown in https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/2860#issuecomment-538325954

This seems to be caused by the old PowerBlock build script changing files within the /docs folder during build time where the git pull/checkout is failing afterwards.

As this is not directly related to the PowerBlock module itself and it seems that it could be mitigated in gitPullOrClone i have raised https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/2869

iasdeoupxe on 13 Oct 2019

If the powerblock module generates files that are committed to git we can workaround it. Will wait for petrockblog on this.

joolswills on 13 Oct 2019

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I have just pushed a minor update that also takes care for possible local changes in the powerblock module directory (87b634271ad9a8f1c15157347a1306564aba4039).

petrockblog on 13 Oct 2019

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