On 01/10/2012, at 9:40 AM, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Sunday, September 30, 2012 11:23:29 Carsten Mattner wrote: > You may also want to make sure that your kdesrc-build is up-to-date (it's > frequently updated in git, only infrequently are separate releases made). The > kdesrc-build git repository also has a kdesrc-buildrc-sample file which is > also kept updated.
I have been having similar problems to Carsten's, but managed to battle my way through the dependencies in the end … I think (???) … DrKonqui depends on kdepimlibs now (!!! ???) … Always in the past I just needed kdelibs, kde-runtime and the prerequisites to build and test an application. No way I wanted to drag in all that Akonadi chain. Anyway I just went into the kde-runtime CMakeLists.txt and commented out DrKonqui. Surely such a vital tool should have as few dependencies as possible … What if kdepimlibs itself were to crash? Just my 2c. Not having used Linux and KDE for some months, I first visited http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/ and downloaded v. 1.15.1, as advised. I must have missed where it said to go and get the latest from git … ;-) Next problem was to work out how to untar the tar ball. It is now .xz. Please can you update the website? >> I was especially confused about what parts are to be used from which >> branch and that only some projects have 4.x branches while some >> need to be used from master. Me too. I got a lot of confusing messages from the KDE Project module metadata step, such as: kdelibs depends upon kdesupport/strigi/strigi[master, but no module builds kdesupport/strigi/strigi[master for this run. There were 16 of these. I had specifically asked, or think I had asked, for the KDE/4.9 branch in my ~/.kdesrc-buildrc file, so I decided to plough on. All those kdesupport dependencies built OK anyway. What I really wanted was kdelibs 4.9.x and kde-runtime 4.9.x, as currently released. It was not clear whether I just had to ask for 4.9 once, near the start of ~/.kdesrc-buildrc, or had to keep on asking for it, but I got 4.9.1 as the library in my app when I finally built it. Michael, I really appreciate the job you do, in very difficult circumstances, so I am in no way critical of kdesrc-build --- it is a boon to the weary traveller! I just wish all the bits of KDE were not bound together as tight as carbon atoms in a diamond. It makes an applications developer's life very difficult. All the best,Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
