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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Newbie Guide to Building KDE from CVS. Comments sought.
From:       "Mahfouf Anne-Marie" <annemahfouf () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2003-09-16 0:51:02
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Hi,

>Something in the KDE tips section on the website I wonder about.  On the 
>page at
>
>   http://women.kde.org/tips/kdetips.php
>
>it says
>
><quote>
>When compiling KDE applications furthermore the following environment 
>variables should be set:
>MANPATH=$KDEDIR/man:$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$KDEDIR/include:$QTDIR/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
>export MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LIBRARY_PATH
>export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
></quote>

$LD_LIBRARY_PATH is indeed important, I think you should mention it in your 
article. As for MANPATH, it can be left out.

>Should I add these to my article or not?

In my article, which is 2 years old now, a lot has been added after users 
asked me to add such and such thing. Which is good. In fact, a wiki would be 
ideal for that sort of thing.
Try to cover most of the ground which is what you are doing, there will 
always be a special case that you cannot cover. But I think you have the 
most of it.

>Also, in your article, you have
>
><quote>
>Note for Suse users: in /home/kde3/.xinitrc, replace the line
>exec $WINDOWMANAGER
>by
>/usr/local/kde3/bin/startkde
></quote>

This was also added from a user request. Is it still valid? I don't know.

>Should I add this to my article?  Since "/usr/local/kde3/bin" is
>in the PATH, wouldn't just "startkde" be better?

yes, startkde is enough  :)
I am sure you will get feedback when the article is online and you will then 
be able to update it. Maybe I should trim mine a bit as it is a bit 
outdated.

I am currently writing the same sort of article in French for my LUG to help 
people install safely alpha1. I'll make a presentation of the new kde3.2 and 
I'll show them how safe it is to have it as another user, provided you have 
the disc space to get the source and a minimum power to compile.

I'll also link my article to yours as soon as it's on developer.kde.org :-)

annma

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