Never mind.  I forgot that I had installed cmake 3.22 in /usr/local.  I
just queried the installed version and assumed that was what I was using.
Sorry for the noise.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:30 PM William Ferguson <wpfergu...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just built current master on Ubuntu 20.04 with cmake 3.16.1, without any
> problems.
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:21 PM Mica Semrick <m...@silentumbrella.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can you not just be polite though? Do we want the default reply here to
>> be "gruff with loosely associated facts?"
>>
>> Essentially the question of "what happened to xxx package" was met with a
>> multi paragraph rant about LTS and Ubuntu and whatever. It didn't provide
>> the answer but instead veered off on it's own direction.
>>
>> Not a great way to start the new year, if I'm honest.
>>
>> -m
>>
>> On January 4, 2023 9:57:39 AM PST, "ja...@activimetrics.com" <
>> ja...@activimetrics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For what its worth, I read Matthias Andree's responses as perfectly
>>> reasonable. Yes the words were not exceedingly polite, but the gruffness
>>> was backed with explanation. I certainly did not read any ad hominem
>>> attacks.
>>>
>>> I was always of the opinion that if you stick with an LTS version of a
>>> distro, you are stuck with *exactly* what the distro decides is worthy
>>> of LTS support.
>>>
>>> Especially in this new world of flatpaks.
>>>
>>> For the record, I run slackware since forever, so building code from
>>> source as a package is something I have to do now and then. I would never
>>> dream of asking the darktable devs to maintain a slackware SlackBuild, let
>>> alone an installable package.
>>>
>>> And when Mr. Volkerding and the inner slackware cabal decide that it is
>>> time to release a new version, one upgrades shortly thereafter.
>>>
>>> Regards, and back to lurking,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 07:43:10AM -0800, Mica Semrick wrote:
>>>
>>> You're making a lot of assumptions here. Seems like you have some deeper
>>> issue than someone asking a simple question about support. Maybe a break
>>> from the computer is in order.
>>>
>>> Happy new year -m
>>>
>>> On January 4, 2023 7:33:59 AM PST, Matthias Andree
>>> matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote: >Am 04.01.23 um 15:58 schrieb Mica
>>> Semrick: >> This answer is a bit rude and doesn't answer the original
>>> query. > >It may be rude if you consider "who cares" rude, and prevents
>>> people >from wasting their time while pointing out the actual issue, which
>>> is >"old distro" which is too old to build darktable 4.2. > >> There is an
>>> unmet dependency in Ubuntu 20.04 and the latest release >> can no longer be
>>> built. See >>
>>> https://discuss.pixls.us/t/what-happened-with-the-obs-builds/33588/2?u=darix
>>>  for
>>> >> more information. > >Thanks for mass-confirming what I was writing. >
>>> >And scared users in that thread posted in November 2022, 7 months after
>>> >release, that they still considered Ubuntu "new", when 22.04.1 was out
>>> >and from-LTS-to-next-LTS upgrades had been enabled. Exactly the kind of
>>> >support open-source maintainers want to be distracted with. I haven't
>>> >even looked whether the OBS people are the same as the darktable people,
>>> >but you'd think it best to move things forward rather than tying them up
>>> >in the past. > >The thing is you can't have the cake and eat it, so
>>> everyone please stop >pretending they could. > >Ubuntu 20.04 (code-named
>>> focal fossa) shipped darktable 3.0, and >darktable being in the "universe"
>>> community-unmaintained package set... >being stuck with older darktable is
>>> a choice that people made by NOT >upgrading their Ubuntu LTS in the past
>>> three months. >
>>> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=focal&searchon=names&keywords=darktable
>>> > >And it's also either you choose a Ubuntu LTS distro and live with
>>> >whatever unmaintained ("universe") package came with it, and be stuck
>>> >with it, or you pick something that installs an app and all its distro
>>> >deps redundantly in a distro (snap or flatpack, if available) with all
>>> >the drawbacks of its isolation and bulk, or you need to move to a distro
>>> >that is up to speed if your interest is "new software" and integrates
>>> >such quickly. Rolling or frequent releases and distros exist, but that's
>>> >not Ubuntu LTS, and possibly no Debian-based distro at all. > >Having said
>>> that, Fedora 37 or FreeBSD 13.1 built darktable 4.2 nicely >for me. > >I
>>> wonder why all the world can expect everyone to maintain every new >package
>>> for their museum piece of desktop distro install and NOT be >considered
>>> rude. Expecting someone to maintain software or packages >thereof for older
>>> distros, on a voluntary basis, free of charge, is what >I consider egoistic
>>> and rude. It is an enormous waste of resources. > >
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