Cannot build Bistro on Debian 9

[arghasen]

When i run run_cmake.sh I get the following error.
admin@instance-bistro-test:/bistro/bistro/bistro/cmake$ ./run-cmake.sh Debug
/bistro/bistro/bistro/cmake/deps /bistro/bistro/bistro/cmake
/bistro/bistro/bistro/cmake
Generating Thrift Files
/bistro /bistro/bistro/bistro
!!! Unrecognized option: /bistro/bistro/bistro/cmake/../../..
Usage: thrift [options] file

[arghasen]

I was not passing the TEMPLATES_PATH

[snarkmaster]

Thanks for the note, @arghasen ! It looks like the top-of-file docblock needs an update — I will fix it.

By the way, did you find that building in a Docker container via fbcode_builder was not workable for you? It's our main open-source testing path, and it has good build-caching support (both Docker cache & ccache), so it should be nice once you get familiar with the scripts:

https://github.com/facebook/bistro/tree/master/build/fbcode_builder

[arghasen]

@snarkmaster I had not used docker earlier so it was not a path I tried. I am more comfortable with the standard make /cmake based toolchain.

[snarkmaster]

Got it. For this project, Docker is just a way of getting all the right dependencies in a reliable, automated way. Outside of a controlled container, it's a lot more work to write code that will correctly set up all the dependencies for Bistro. The Docker method still uses automake & cmake to build the various projects.