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kdesvn-build

Posted Nov 27, 2009 3:44 UTC (Fri) by sbishop (guest, #33061)
In reply to: Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News) by dlang
Parent article: Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News)

please name a single program which has it's build system setup to fetch the source code for all libraries that it depends on, configure them, and build them when you try to build the program

KDE, funny enough: http://kdesvn- build.kde.org/. I've used it on old RHEL systems to build a decent, up- to-date KDE. It was nice to have everything taken care of for me.

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kdesvn-build

Posted Nov 27, 2009 4:50 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

WOW, you mean that it will fetch the code for glibc and compile it if the development packages are not already installed on the system? what about PAM libraries?

I suspect that the most it did was to grab other KDE specific libraries.

kdesvn-build

Posted Nov 29, 2009 18:17 UTC (Sun) by sbishop (guest, #33061) [Link]

glibc and PAM, huh? Well, you need to be careful. If you have the script handle the user-space component of your operating system, it must, of course, handle the kernel-space component as well. You will, if I remember right, end up running FreeBSD. (It's pretty popular with the KDE devs.)

Typically, however, kdesvn-build will only build and install Qt, taglib, CMake, and QCA, among others.