make install does not install triples/ directory -- hdt-it still active?

[chrysn]

Building hdt-it on a system with hdt-cpp installed (through a primitive Debian package, see https://bugs.debian.org/749416) it appears as if make install does not install the triples directory. When then trying to build hdt-it using qmake && make, I got:

g++ -c -pipe -O3 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_OPENGL_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I../libcds-v1.0.12/includes -I../hdt-lib/include/ -I. -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtOpenGL -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -Iunix -Iunix -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o unix/hdtcachedinfo.o hdtcachedinfo.cpp
hdtcachedinfo.cpp:4:10: fatal error: ../../hdt-lib/src/triples/BitmapTriples.hpp: No such file or directory
    4 | #include "../../hdt-lib/src/triples/BitmapTriples.hpp"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [Makefile.Release:750: unix/hdtcachedinfo.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/chrysn/debian_packaging/hdt-cpp/hdt-it'
make: *** [Makefile:42: release] Error 2

Manually installing the triples into /usr/include did the trick on the first occurrence, as probably would including the relevant directory in libhdt/Makefile.am's include_HEADERS. Same goes for the bitsequence folder. Same goes for the bitsequence, sequence and dictionary folders.

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... and then, I looked closer and found that not only does this not look up the headers in the system path, but it also can't work since the 2017 rename (with a similar occurrence in regexmodel.cpp line 9), making me wonder: Has anyone built hdt-it in the last 5 years? (With some build system workarounds I could get it to build, then, and it looks functional then).

[ptorrestr]

Back when we changed the building system to Autotools, I skip hdt-it as we observed similar issues like the one you mention. My guess is that it hasn't been built in the last 5 years.