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Subject: Re: Introducing into KDE programming
From: Juan Luis Baptiste <juan.baptiste () kdemail ! net>
Date: 2006-09-26 16:02:06
Message-ID: 200609261102.06574.juan.baptiste () kdemail ! net
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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:37, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Taking a look to your responses (that are really productive and
> interesting, I thank you) I wonder how do you develop for KDE. I mean...
> what strategy do you follow to have a running system and hack KDE without
> breaking yours or whatever.
>
You could use Konstruct to automagically compile KDE 3.5.4 from sources
without risking to hose your rpm installation:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9725
>
> The idea of having another tree (i.e ~/kde-devel) and play with KDEDIRS
> variable could be interesting, but I DON'T want to compile kdebase any time
> that I break kdesu for example when programming or something (i know that
> is not necessary, but having a unclean tree makes me crazy). For that
> reason I thought in downloading only apps that I would like to improve
> (i.e. kate, kmail, kdesu...) and compile them with the include dir in my
> root system and the libraries in my kde root directory.
>
You can tell to konstruct which modules you want to compile and which ones
not. I suppose there are some modules that you have to compile like kdebase
and kdelibs but you can save some time by telling konstruct which modules you
definitively don't need.
Cheers,
--
Juan Luis Baptiste
http://www.merlinux.org
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