Waybar: What's the 'date' dependency in 0.9.1?

[jubalh]

With 0.9.1 I get:

[   23s] Run-time dependency date found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
[   23s] Looking for a fallback subproject for the dependency date
[   23s] 
[   23s] meson.build:85:0: ERROR: Git program not found.

What is 'date' actually? Not sure which package is meant by this. PKGCONFIG doesnt seem to know about it.

[b1rger]

Its this one: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

[jubalh]

Seems not packaged in Debian nor openSUSE. Also seems to be a header only library. Maybe you could add it to the repo as a fallback if it's not found on the system?

[b1rger]

Seems not packaged in Debian nor openSUSE.

Yeah, I am already looking into packaging date for Debian, since I'm one of the waybar maintainers in Debian and we will need that for uploading a new waybar release ;)

Maybe you could add it to the repo as a fallback if it's not found on the system?

I'm not a part of waybar upstream, but I think thats what subprojects/date.wrap is for.

[Alexays]

@bisco2 Yeah subprojects/date.wrap is the fallback, but it seems to use git.. so you'll need to install it.

[jubalh]

Yeah subprojects/date.wrap is the fallback, but it seems to use git.. so you'll need to install it.

Unfortunately there won't be a network connection available in the buildroot.

[denisok]

Yeah subprojects/date.wrap is the fallback, but it seems to use git.. so you'll need to install it.

Unfortunately there won't be a network connection available in the buildroot.

I just did meson subprojects download, deleted everything except date there and repacked tar.gz.
Later I could just add script that would do that, that is usual thing for such kind of dependencies in OBS.
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/788449

[denisok]

@MichaelAquilina ^ package for openSUSE on its way. you could install it from dev project if you want it earlier.

[jubalh]

I accepted https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/788449 and forwarded to Factory.

[Alexays]

I'm going to close this issue, but just out of curiosity, how did you solve the problem?

[jubalh]

We downloaded the date dependency with meson subprojects download and added it to our tarball. Which is pretty ugly :(

[kanyck]

I've the same issue on Gentoo with 0.9.2. Waybar doesn't compile due to missing date dependency. This ought to be resolved somehow.
Please reopen.

[kanyck]

UPD: I've found the package in overlays, so I was able to update. Actually, it's ebuild author who missed new dependency. From the other hand, it's strange that such a simple task did require such an exotic package to be fulfilled. That's a kludge. Hope you won't pull dbus next release...
Thanks!