cmake barfing on i386 only?

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I’m trying to get libnfs to compile on i386, but it keeps failing with errors like this:

CMake Error at lib/CMakeLists.txt:19 (target_link_libraries):
  Target "nfs_rquota" of type OBJECT_LIBRARY may not be linked into another
  target.  One may link only to STATIC or SHARED libraries, or to executables
  with the ENABLE_EXPORTS property set.

To reproduce:

  • docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
  • docker run --rm --interactive i386/ubuntu bash -c 'apt update; apt install -y git gcc cmake make; git clone https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs; cd libnfs; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..'

If you change i386 in the above to arm32v7 then it’ll work.

Any ideas for what’s going on here would be appreciated—thank you!

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It sounds like there’s an old CMake in the i386 container. Linking to OBJECT libraries needs at least CMake 3.12.