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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I have a branch on my fork [1] called "im/lemon" that can be used. It
can be found here: https://gitlab.com/imcinerney/kicad/-/tree/im/lemon. If
the build passes with that, it means lemon integration is working. CMake
should error during configuration if the lemon executable can't be found

-Ian

[1] https://gitlab.com/imcinerney/kicad

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:01 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Is there a branch packages can use to make sure their lemon integration is
> working?
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 4:00 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Two new build-time dependencies are being added to the master branch for
>> v6:
>> * lemon - The lemon parser generator
>> * GTK3 (linux only) - the GTK3 libraries (only GTK3, not GTK2 - that is
>> not supported anymore). This is technically also a runtime dependency, but
>> we also need GTK3 for wxWidgets, so it shouldn't be a new runtime dep (only
>> needing the build headers are new).
>>
>> The lemon parser is needed to fix
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/5013 by changing how the
>> files are generated (in MR
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/318). GTK3 is
>> needed to enable new functionality inside the platform-specific
>> KIPLATFORM library for Linux (such as overriding menu settings, moving
>> files to trash, etc.)
>>
>> All developers should make sure they have these new dependencies
>> installed, and nightly builds should add them to their build script (Steve,
>> thanks for updating Fedora's so quick!) I have opened issue on GitLab for
>> the builders on there:
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-win-builder/-/issues/101
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-mac-builder/-/issues/332
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-ubuntu-builder/kicad-daily-package/-/issues/2
>>
>> I haven't merged any code into master that needs them yet, but I would
>> like to merge the lemon fix as soon as possible (the problem it is solving
>> has attracted increased attention it seems).
>>
>> -Ian
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