[kde-announce] kdesvn-build 0.97

kdesvn-build version 0.97 was just released.

What is it?
-----------

kdesvn-build is a Perl script that can download and build KDE for you from the 
KDE Subversion source repository.

It includes many features to make the experience as easy as possible.  It is 
also highly customizable, although all of the options have a sane default for 
those that don't like twiddling knobs. ;)

Some of the features of kdesvn-build include:
* Automatically checks out or updates modules from Subversion as appropriate.
* Supports "global" options that apply to every module, but can be overridden 
on a per module basis.
* Has support for checking out specific branches of a module.
* Shows the estimated progress of the build when possible, and shows the 
amount of time taken for a module.
* kdesvn-build tries very hard to build a module successfully.  It will even 
go so far as to automatically re-run the process starting from make -f 
Makefile.cvs.
* Can resume from a previous failed run.
* kdesvn-build has excellent support for Unsermake, the improved automake 
replacement.  It will even automatically download if for you if necessary.
* The configuration file will expand tilde (~) to your home directory where 
appropriate, so you can use shell-style paths.
* Automatically sets up a so-called srcdir != builddir arrangement to keep the 
source directory clean.
* Command logging.  Logs are dated and numbered so that you always have a log 
of a script run.  A special symlink called latest is created in the log 
directory that points to the logs from the last run.
* You can checkout only a portion of a module if you'd like.  For example, you 
could checkout only taglib from kdesupport.  The admin directory from 
kde-common is imported automatically if necessary.
* "Pretend" mode.  You can see what steps kdesvn-build would perform without 
actually changing anything.

Where is it?
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kdesvn-build is currently maintained in the KDE kdesdk module, under the 
scripts subdirectory.  The documentation (Docbook and manpage) was written by 
Carlos Leonhard Woelz.

What's new?
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Changes in 0.97:
* KDE SVN Trunk revision: 431712
* Fix Perl warning due to PKG_CONFIG_PATH not being set (fix by dfaure).
* Man page is included in the kdesdk module, thanks to Carlos Leon Woelz.
* --config-cache is no longer in the default configure flags.
* Don't redirect stderr to the log when running the subversion client, that 
usually just hangs the script. (Bug 107182 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107182)
* Add a few config file options:
 - branch, to build a module from the given branch.  Doesn't work on every 
module (but works on most).
 - tag, to build a module from a given tag.  Also doesn't work on every module 
(but works on most).
 - override-url, to allow you to choose the EXACT URL to download the module 
from.
 - disable-agent-check, see below.
* A few minor polish changes by Thiago Macieira.
* If unsermake is already checked out and manual-update is set for kdenonbeta, 
kdesvn-build will forgo the auto-update of unsermake.  This means you may 
have to manually update unsermake if you use this feature, but this is useful 
if you are constantly using kdesvn-build to update.
* Killed the auto-switch feature.  If you change your svn-server it's probably 
easier just to delete the sources and have kdesvn-build check them back out.
* If you're downloading using svn+ssh:/ and kdesvn-build detects that you're 
using ssh-agent, kdesvn-build will then make sure the ssh agent is actually 
managing some identities before it performs the update.  This is to prevent 
kdesvn-build asking for your passphrase 14 gazillion times (via ssh) when you 
forgot to run ssh-add.

For more information, e-mail the author (michael.pyne () kdemail () net), or 
visit the homepage (currently http://grammarian.homelinux.net/kdesvn-build/)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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