From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 29 13:55:56 2012
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:55:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Requiring cmake 2.8.9 for kdelibs 4.10 ?
Message-Id: <201209291555.56312.neundorf () kde ! org>
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On Saturday 29 September 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2012 13:19:30 you wrote:
> > But how does that differ from requiring other very recent packages,
> > including Qt ?
> 
> we don't do that. We still require only Qt 4.7 and there is one difference
> in build system vs. some depending library. Depending library is nicely
> handled by systems like kdesrc-build. The example kdesrc-buildrc comes
> with all the pieces already there, so if there is really the need I
> uncomment a part and let it build.
> 
> For cmake on the other hand I have no idea how to install it without

$ wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.9-Linux-i386.tar.gz
$ su
$ cd /opt
$ tar -zxvf path/to/cmake-2.8.9-Linux-i386.tar.gz
...
$ /opt/cmake-2.8.9-Linux-i386/bin/cmake ...all your arguments

Alex