On Monday, October 01, 2012 12:09:33 Ian Wadham wrote: > 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. > > 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?
Yes. :) Please remind me if I forget again though (I'll leave this email open to remind me). > >> 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. One other option you can try (if using kdesrc-build from git :-/) is to set the "use-stable-kde true" option to mark that you want to build the stable branch. You can set the option globally but it only works for kde-projects modules. Non kde-projects modules (and kde-projects modules without a set stable branch) still get built from master like normal unless you provide a more specific branch to use. > 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. Same here. I've been working most recently on providing a sample login script which pointed me out to several omissions in my own personal login script... it's an ever-changing game it seems! Regards, - Michael Pyne
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