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+#
+# Fedora COPR spec file for package subsurface
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Dirk Hohndel
+#
+
+Name:           {{{ git_dir_name }}}
+Version:        {{{ git_dir_version }}}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+
+Summary:        A test build of the latest development version of Subsurface
+
+License:        GPL v2
+Url:            http://subsurface-divelog.org
+VCS:            {{{ git_dir_vcs }}}
+
+Source0:        {{{ git_dir_pack }}}
+
+Group:          Productivity/Other
+
+BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
+BuildRequires:  fdupes
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  asciidoc
+BuildRequires:  autoconf
+BuildRequires:  automake
+BuildRequires:  libtool
+BuildRequires:  cmake
+BuildRequires:  libzip-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
+BuildRequires:  libssh2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libcurl-devel
+BuildRequires:  libgit2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libmtp-devel
+BuildRequires:  netpbm-devel
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  libsqlite3x-devel
+BuildRequires:  libusbx-devel
+BuildRequires:  bluez-libs-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qttools-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtwebkit-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtsvg-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtscript-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtdeclarative-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-mysql
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-postgresql
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-ibase
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-odbc
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-tds
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtconnectivity-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtlocation-devel
+BuildRequires:  libappstream-glib
+
+Recommends:     qt5-qttranslations
+
+%description
+This is the official Subsurface build, including our own custom libdivecomputer
+
+
+%prep
+{{{ git_dir_setup_macro }}}
+
+
+%build
+# we need to temporarily install the output of our two included dependency in order to use those
+# when building Subsurface - yes, this is ugly. But since we have private versions of these two
+# libraries, this is the most reasonable approach...
+mkdir -p install-root
+(cd libdivecomputer ; \
+        autoreconf --install ; \
+        CFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" ./configure --prefix=%{_builddir}/install-root --bindir=%{_builddir}/install-root/bin --libdir=%{_builddir}/install-root/lib --includedir=%{_builddir}/install-root/include --disable-examples ; \
+        make %{?_smp_mflags} ; \
+        make install)
+( cd googlemaps ; mkdir -p build ; cd build ; \
+        qmake-qt5 ../googlemaps.pro ; \
+        # on Fedora 36 and newer we get the package_notes that break the build - let's rip them out
+        sed -i 's/-Wl[^ ]*package_note[^ ]* //g' Makefile
+        make -j4 ; \
+        make install_target INSTALL_ROOT=%{_builddir}/install-root )
+%cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+                -DMAKE_TESTS=OFF \
+                -DLRELEASE=lrelease-qt5 \
+                -DLIBDIVECOMPUTER_INCLUDE_DIR=%{_builddir}/install-root/include \
+                -DLIBGIT2_INCLUDE_DIR=%{_builddir}/install-root/include \
+                -DLIBDIVECOMPUTER_LIBRARIES=%{_builddir}/install-root/lib/libdivecomputer.a \
+                -DNO_PRINTING=OFF \
+                .
+%cmake_build 
+
+%install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}
+( cd googlemaps/build ; make install_target INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot} )
+%cmake_install  
+install subsurface.debug %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+install appdata/subsurface.appdata.xml %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo
+desktop-file-install --dir=%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/applications subsurface.desktop
+
+%fdupes %{buildroot}
+
+%post
+%desktop_database_post
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun
+%desktop_database_post
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc gpl-2.0.txt README.md ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes.txt
+%{_bindir}/subsurface*
+%{_libdir}/qt5/plugins/geoservices/libqtgeoservices_googlemaps.so
+%{_datadir}/applications/subsurface.desktop
+%dir %{_datadir}/metainfo
+%{_datadir}/metainfo/subsurface.appdata.xml
+%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/subsurface-icon.*
+%{_datadir}/subsurface/
+
+
+%changelog
+{{{ git_dir_changelog }}}