> On Nov. 10, 2015, 1:26 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > Ship It!
> 
> Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
>     Forgot to mention that the patch can be pulled from the fix-cmake-xkb-dep 
> branch at: g...@github.com:cmacq2/plasma-desktop.git
> 
> Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
>     Please note: I do not have commit access (just a KDE identity account) so 
> please pull these changes because I cannot commit them!
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     I see a problem here. The features offered by kaccess are important and 
> necessary for some users. Are we just disabling it and then be done? I think 
> we need to put this stuff on a porting list and find a better solution than 
> to just not build everything that #includes xcbsomething.
>     
>     Johan, I think you're getting pretty close to us asking you to get a KDE 
> identity account with commit privileges, just so you know. 
> https://identity.kde.org/index.php?r=developerApplication is currently 
> broken, but I'd say as soon as it's fixed, let's start that process.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     > Are we just disabling it and then be done?
>     
>     I think it's the distros task to built it properly.
>     
>     And yes, we might need to rethink which platform specific packages should 
> be required in build. Just saying "hey let's make all X11 deps mandatory" is 
> also not the way to go anymore with Wayland.
> 
> Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
>     > Are we just disabling it and then be done?
>     
>     That is not what this change is about. The change rectifies an 
> inconsistency between the top level cmake configure stuff which checks the 
> build environment for dependencies, and the C++ code which uses these 
> unconditionally (e.g. kaccess).
>     
>     The plasma-desktop build process deals with two classes of X11 deps: 
> mandatory and optional. As it happens the XKB dep is classified optional in 
> the top level cmake files, meaning configure will accept a build environment 
> without XKB. This change makes sure that the 'optional' part is, indeed, 
> consistently optional and does not result in build failure later (during 
> make).
>     
>     People who need kaccess must necessarily install the XKB 
> headers/development files anyway. If the XKB dep is found then kacess is 
> still included in the build and nothing changes (effectively).
>     
>     (The alternative is to classify XKB as mandatory.)

I see, thanks for the clarification.


- Sebastian


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On Nov. 10, 2015, 12:52 a.m., Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 10, 2015, 12:52 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Plasma.
> 
> 
> Repository: plasma-desktop
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> The XCB-XKB dependency of plasma-desktop is optional, however kacess depends 
> directly and unconditionally on the xcb/xkb.h header file.
> This causes the build of plasma-desktop to fail at compile stage if the xkb 
> header is not present.
> 
> As per the convention in the kcm modules shipped by plasma-desktop, inclusion 
> of the kacess subdirectory is made conditional on XKB being present and 
> properly detected during the cmake configure stage.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   CMakeLists.txt 193238a8dcbb2c6e2bda01c390c57ff2ecfebeb0 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126013/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Built without xkb header, using kdesrc-build
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Johan Ouwerkerk
> 
>

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