KICAD Nightles – Build Failure on CentOS 8 – Software

I build the KICAD Nightlies on a CentOS 8 system using the Fedora Source RPMS.

Usually this is successful after two minor modifications to the ‘spec’ file (for boost176 and gcc 11).

Today I attempted to build: /kicad-nightly-6.99.0-1.20221221gite8f755c.fc36.src.rpm.

The first hurdle was the recent requirement for cmake-3.21 or greater. The CentOS8 cmake is 3.20. I built cmake-3.25 and installed it in the Virtual Machine I use to build the Nightlies.

The second hurdle is this:

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appstream-util validate-relax –nonet /home/stephen/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kicad-nightly-6.99.0-1.20221221gite8f755c.sc.x86_64/usr/share/metainfo/org.kicad.kicad_nightly.metainfo.xml
/home/stephen/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kicad-nightly-6.99.0-1.20221221gite8f755c.sc.x86_64/usr/share/metainfo/org.kicad.kicad_nightly.metainfo.xml: FAILED:
? attribute-invalid : timestamp is in the future
Validation of files failed
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.kCF5nt (%check)

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If I revert to cmake-3.20 and modify CMakeLists.txt to require cmake 3.20 or newer, then the build and packaging succeeds.

I have rebuilt with cmake-3.25 again, and it failed for a second time.

I understand that building on CentOS 8 may result in such strange failures. I don’t quite get the difference between cmake-3.25 and cmake-3.20.

Obviously, this isn’t a problem with the Fedora builds at copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kicad/kicad/package/kicad-nightly/.

Could it be some weird form of timezone problem? The ‘xml’ file cited in the diagnostic contains:

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Since the local time zone is Australian Easter Daylight and therefore the UTC day is 22/12/2022.

I will build cmake-3.21 to determine whether the build displays a similar behaviour with that.

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