Building assimp 3.2 does not work anymore

Question

I can't build assimp 3.2 anymore. Yesterday it worked but today it doesn't.

I am downloading assimp from here. Then I'm doing cmake CMakeLists.txt -G 'Unix Makefiles' and make as described in their INSTALL file. However when doing make I get the following error:

[ 84%] Performing configure step for 'gtest'
CMake Error at /home/gartenriese/Documents/assimp/assimp-3.2/test/gtest/src/gtest-stamp/gtest-configure.cmake:16 (message):
  Command failed: 1

   '/usr/bin/cmake' '-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=' '-Dgtest_force_shared_crt=ON' '-Dgtest_disable_pthreads:BOOL=OFF' '-GUnix Makefiles' '/home/gartenriese/Documents/assimp/assimp-3.2/test/gtest/src/gtest'

  See also

    /home/gartenriese/Documents/assimp/assimp-3.2/test/gtest/src/gtest-stamp/gtest-configure-*.log



make[2]: *** [test/gtest/src/gtest-stamp/gtest-configure] Error 1

gtest-configure-out.log is empty, however gtest-configure-err.log says the following:

CMake Error: The source directory "/home/gartenriese/Documents/assimp/assimp-3.2/test/gtest/src/gtest" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

Any ideas? It worked yesterday and I did not change anything on my system globally.

EDIT:

I can build it with the option -DASSIMP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF added to the cmake command. However this is just a workaround and does not explain the issue.

Answer 1

Because project assimp used incorrect link to gtest repository

Currently cmake-modules/AddGTest.cmake used link to chromium repository which is deprecated and all code removed from it.

From README.md

This mirror has been deprecated. 
The actual repository has moved to https://github.com/google/googletest/ 

So you should update link in AddGTest.cmake to point into Github repository.

UPDATE:

Pull request was already merged into assimp's master branch. So use it instead of repository from comments.