Cannot install to system paths

[MakisH]

With:

    - name: Install preCICE
      uses: precice/setup-precice-action@main
      with:
        precice-version: develop
        install-prefix: /usr

I get the following error (logs):

Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprecice.so.3.0.0
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:72 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  "/home/runner/work/openfoam-adapter/openfoam-adapter/precice/build/libprecice.so.3.0.0"
  to "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprecice.so.3.0.0": Success.


make: *** [Makefile:120: install] Error 1
Error: Process completed with exit code 2.

Same with /usr/local, which is the mentioned as default in the README.md.

I don't know what is the common practice in Actions, but maybe we need a sudo before the make install here, at least in case this is a system path.

[davidscn]

I am hitting the same error. Since GitHub deletes the log files after a while, let me put the raw log here

Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libprecice.so.3.1.2
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libprecice.so.3
-- Set runtime path of "/usr/local/lib/libprecice.so.3.1.2" to ""
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libprecice.so
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/Version.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/Exceptions.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/Participant.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/Tooling.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/Types.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/precice.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/span.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/export.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/preciceC.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/precice/preciceFortran.hpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/precice-tools
-- Set runtime path of "/usr/local/bin/precice-tools" to ""
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/precice-profiling
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/c
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/c/CMakeLists.txt
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/c/solverdummy.c
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/c/README.md
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/fortran
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/fortran/CMakeLists.txt
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/fortran/solverdummy.f90
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/fortran/README.md
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/precice-config.xml
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/cpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/cpp/solverdummy.cpp
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/cpp/test.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/cpp/README.md
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/precice/examples/solverdummies/README.md
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/precice/preciceTargets.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/precice/preciceTargets-release.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/precice/preciceConfig.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/precice/preciceConfigVersion.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man1
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man1/precice-tools.1.gz
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libprecice.pc
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/doc/libprecice3/copyright
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/lintian/overrides/libprecice3
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/doc/libprecice3/changelog.gz
Run echo "PATH=$HOME/precice/bin:$PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
Run ls -l $HOME/precice/
ls: cannot access '/github/home/precice/': No such file or directory

where I am using

    - name: build preCICE
      uses: precice/setup-precice-action@main
      with:
        precice-version: develop
        install-prefix: /usr/local

If I use a released version (precice-version: v3.1.2) then it succeeds. If I skip specifying the install prefix, it works as well. The issue as that the action tries to export the installation paths according to the default install-prefix (/github/home/precice/), which doesn't exist if preCICE was not installed there. Thus, the solution would be to check if this is hard-coded and use the user-input here instead.

[MakisH]

I don't remember more details, but I think it's a good time to try again using this in the OpenFOAM adapter (where the original logs come from).