Xournalpp: Build problem on Ubuntu 20.04

[frohro]

Hi All,
This was building fine on Ubuntu 20.04 until yesterday. Now I get:

[ 16%] Building CXX object src/util/CMakeFiles/util.dir/serializing/ObjectEncoding.cpp.o
[ 16%] Building CXX object src/util/CMakeFiles/util.dir/serializing/ObjectInputStream.cpp.o
[ 16%] Building CXX object src/util/CMakeFiles/util.dir/serializing/ObjectOutputStream.cpp.o
[ 17%] Linking CXX static library libutil.a
[ 17%] Built target util
make: * [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

This is after a git pull, cmake ../, make clean, and make. I'm not good with Makefiles, and couldn't see what was wrong looking at this one. It could be a problem with Ubuntu 20.04, as they are adding things left and right at this time. Generally I have found it to work fine though.

Rob

[lehmanju]

@frohro As you can probably guess we can't really help you from that log output. Could you provide some more information? Set log output to verbose maybe?

[Febbe]

The problem is, that errorcodes can mean everything when the software does not implement a common standard. But when we assume it does, some file or directory is missing or can't be accessed.
Maybe your CMake cache is corrupted.
Try to touch ../CMakeLists.txt from the build directory or delete the build dir.

[frohro]

Thanks for the tip about removing the build directory, and starting over. That solved the issue!
Rob