On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:35:44PM -0600, Robert Daniels wrote: > Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the > biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. > Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. Thanks, very useful. > [...] > > kdebase has been split into kdebase, kdebase-runtime, and kdebase-workspace. > I'm pretty sure kdebase needs to go first, but I am > uncertain as to the order of the other two.
I had got as far as looking at some references, but it all looks fiendishly complicated, The "official" notes on how to build it, at http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 describe it as split into apps, runtime, workspace and say that only the runtime is required. They talk about building all three parts together, but that might be a side-effect of building from trunk instead of releases (the notes seem to pre-date the "release"). Being outside-the-loop on kde, I had difficulty understanding why you would, or would not, want to build plasma (unless you were going to have a wholly kde4 desktop). There was a review at ars.technica [ http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/kde-40-review.ars ] which points out this is in many ways still a pre-release (plasma problems, apps not yet ported). The gentoo guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml might also be helpful, even though it's mostly talking about the details of the gentoo build system (unmask, keywords) - particularly note the comment on not letting 3.5 and 4 share the same configuration files. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
