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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Newbie Guide to Building KDE from CVS. Comments sought.
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-09-14 21:13:57
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On Sunday 14 September 2003 18:14, Gary Cramblitt wrote:

After my "faster than five minutes" answer, a slower one...

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:36:54 +0200
>
> Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > Sorry! Either you misunderstood me or I was not clear enough (must be the
> > last one.)
> >
> > I am not telling that users should not come to CVS HEAD. I am also not
> > telling that Gary's tutorial is bad, not needed, not useful...
> >
> > I am just trying to explain that jumping directly into CVS HEAD might be
> > too much (not everybody has the hardware, patience, time... to do build
> > after build after build.)
>
> OK, I agree that your approach is a good one for the newbie.  Since I
> haven't tried your approach, I don't think I'm qualified to write about
> it at this time.  Perhaps someone else is willing to write such an
> article?  I did add some words to my article mentioning your approach
> and refering the reader to koffice.kde.org.

Well, if you compile KOffice, you will see if it is really easier or not. You 
can compare and give an idea if for a newbie it is a possible way or not.

As written in my previous email, the right address for KOffice is: 
http://www.koffice.org

>
> BTW, KOffice is one of the few remaining modules I haven't been able to
> build from CVS HEAD yet.  FWIW, here's the error messages from a build
> attempt on Sep 13th.
>
> *** Postprocessing Makefile templates
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20,
> immediately after start byte 0 xdf) in pattern match (m//) at admin/am_edit
> line 2029.
> <About half a dozen more messages similar to above>

That is the build system going havoc.

As you have a RedHat system, you should perhaps try to define
  export LANG=C
before you start. (If I remember well, RedHat's default is something ending in 
UTF-8.)

A side tip: defining LANG=C is also good when your make program is speaking 
your language and that you want an English output for posting on a mailing 
list.

> configure: WARNING: qsa >= 20030301 could not be found anywhere, kexi will
> compile without scrip ting support. check ftp.trolltech.com for qsa
> >=20030301

That is Trolltech's script application. Kexi's script support is based on QSA. 
I do not think that it is really needed for a beginner.

(Kexi is currently unstable and will not be part of kOffice 1.3.)

> The MS Word filter won't be compiled due to experimental changes.

As written, no MS Word import filter for now. :-)

> Your libaspell is too old or not installed, I couldn't find aspell.h.
> You must download aspell >= 0.50.2
> See http://aspell.net/. Spell-checking disabled

Aspell missing, not recognized or something else. I have the same error 
message. I have never taken the time to look at it. (I am not sure if 
spellchecking is really disabled or only switched to ispell.)
.
> You're missing ImageMagick (>=5.5.2). krita will not be compiled.
> You can download ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org/
> In file included from

That is for Krita. Krita uses ImageMagick's library.

(Krita is currently unstable and will not be part of kOffice 1.3.)

> /home/share/src/kde/koffice/kexi/core/filters/kexitableimportsourceiface.c
> pp:20:
> /home/share/src/kde/koffice/kexi/core/filters/kexitableimportsourceiface.h:
>25:32: kexiDB/kexidbt able.h: No such file or directory

The directory kexiDB (with upper-case DB) does not exist anymore.

>
> Clearly, I need to follow configure's advice and install the packages it
> mentions, although I'm curious what this "qsa" thingy is.  Just haven't
> had time to work on it yet.

As written, you should be able to build KOffice like that. Of course, you 
might want to install the libraries to get more, but you can do it on a 
second compile.

>
> Thank you for your input.

Please! As written, we need more newbies to get more developers. We cannot 
afford to lose newbies in the cold water.

>
> Regards,
> Gary Cramblitt

Have a nice day!

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