On Nov 26, 2007 5:08 PM, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/24/07, Giambattista Bloisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on recipes for KDE 4. I installed it successfully on my > > system anyway before submitting Recipes I'm concerned about a few issues > > I found. > > > > The first problem is that KDE 4 is based on cmake. AFAIK at the moment > > only cvs version of Compile supports cmake. Is it ok to to post recipes > > that require cvs versions of Compile ? > > > > I would say that they don't belong in the official store but post them > for interested individuals.
And I would say it's about time I make a new Compile release. So, is cmake support in Compile stable/complete enough? Did you have to make any ugly workarounds to build KDE, etc.? If improvements are needed, I would be happy to implement them before a release that affects the Compile recipes specification. > > KDE 4 also requires a package named "KDE-Support" which is available > > only using svn. Therefore in the Dependencies file I see an entry like > > "KDE-Support 20071115-SVN". Is that ok as well ? > > KDE-Support required me to recompile svn since the one shipped with the > > binary package did not support https protocol. I had a similar problem > > with rpm and OpenOffice where I had to recompile rpm beacuse it was not > > able to handle the rpms of OpenOffice. > > > Is there a reason svn doesn't support https? What are the extra deps > to support it? Without a reason to avoid https support, I'd like it > in the official recipe. It should support http... Giambattista, did you have to change the dependencies and/or flags? Let me know if the latest recipe is okay and I'll rebuild the binary package. > > Finally, I had to build and install some packages (KDE-Libs, KDE-Base-*) > > on the same tree. The problem was that these packages expect that > > certain xml files are in their install dir during the compilation phase. > > Perhaps this could be done by tweaking cmake, but I'm not an expert on this. > > Is ok to resolve the former problem with a meta-recipe ? > > > > Given the current problems a meta-recipe is fine. Tweaking cmake is > the best solution though. Did all the KDE-* packages have to go on the same tree or was it a subset (if so, which)? > How is KDE4? Is it usable/stable? I have a feeling we won't ship a > LiveCD with it until a late 4.0 or 4.1 but I've never used it and am > biased by some negative buzz I've seen. >From the people I talked to, early KDE 4.0 is probably not a good candidate for a live CD, as they said that the libraries are solid, the applications are still getting some polish. > Thanks for taking the initiative on this! Seconded! -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
