[Question] Include files installed by default?

[grisu48]

Describe what you need help with

Since version 26 openSeaChest installs a bunch of include files to /usr/local/include. Here's a list of identified header files:

[   33s]    /usr/include/arraylist.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/debug.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_c_version.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_config.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_inttypes.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_object.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_object_iterator.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_tokener.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_types.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_util.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/json_visit.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/linkhash.h
[   33s]    /usr/include/printbuf.h

I'm not sure if this is intended, as those appear rather generic and they are probably not necessary for running the binary.

I'm seeing them because when packaging rpm complains about those files being installed but not included in the rpm package and I'm not sure if they ever should be included.

Any additional details

Building via

# meson --buildtype=release builddir
# cd builddir
# meson compile
# meson install
# ls /usr/local/include/
arraylist.h  json.h            json_config.h    json_object.h           json_tokener.h  json_util.h   linkhash.h
debug.h      json_c_version.h  json_inttypes.h  json_object_iterator.h  json_types.h    json_visit.h  printbuf.h

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Environment

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Additional context

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[vonericsen]

@grisu48,

Thank you for reporting this! In v26.03.0 we added the ability to output json formatted data for some options using the library json-c.

It is probably due to how that is being compiled that these are accidentally being included in the path when we create the RPM and we did not notice earlier.

We will investigate the packaging to figure out how these are being included and resolve that issue.