esutil pip install fails on github actions using ubuntu-latest (22.04)

[erykoff]

I use pip in my github actions for redmapper. And the esutil installation failed today, apparently caused by the update of ubuntu-latest from 20.04 to 22.04 in November/December (it was a rolling release). Specifically requesting ubuntu-20.04 fixed the issue (temporarily).

The pip install error was the following:

      esutil/htm/htmc.h:111:47: error: ISO C++17 does not allow dynamic exception specifications
        111 |                         const char* filename) throw (const char *);
            |                                               ^~~~~

Which is strange because it should be explicitly setting c++11, but I noticed that the build line looks like:

      gcc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -fPIC -I/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.15/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/include -Iesutil/include -Iesutil/recfile -Iesutil/htm -Iesutil/htm/htm_src -I/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.15/x64/include/python3.8 -c esutil/htm/htm_src/SpatialInterface.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8/esutil/htm/htm_src/SpatialInterface.o

(That is, no use of the -std=c++11 which should be there.)

[esheldon]

thanks for this

[esheldon]

If the flag isn't being passed, this might be a python/pip issue

[jobovy]

I think the issue is that @erykoff is pip installing the latest release, which doesn't include #75, so doesn't set -std=c++11. You could just try adding it to CFLAGS, that should work.

[jobovy]

Also, the reason that this bug occurred when GHA switched to Ubuntu 22.04 is that the default GCC version changed to 11, which uses the C++17 standard by default:

• (Public Beta) Ubuntu 22.04 is now available actions/runner-images#5490
• https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-11-Cpp-17-Default

[esheldon]

I tagged a new version and pushed to pypi

[esheldon]

is this working now?