From kde-devel  Thu Jun 28 14:49:25 2007
From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:49:25 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: How to package kde apps?
Message-Id: <20070628144925.GB30035 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org>
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On 28.06.07 16:10:18, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 27.06.07 19:08:28, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> >> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >>> On 27.06.07 12:45:18, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> >>>> actually (see also another post of mine), at least with the version of 
> >>>> kdevelop from svn I was using at that time (few months ago), make 
> >>>> distcheck never worked...  probably things have changed in the way 
> >>>> makefiles are generated by kdevelop...
> >>> KDevelop doesn't generate Makefile's. Its your buildsystem that does
> >>> this and I guess you're using automake (because I can't recall a make
> >>> distcheck in qmake) in which case the problem might simply be that the
> >>> application template you used is not setup properly (autoconf/automake
> >>> wise).
> >> yes of course I meant the the autotools files generated by kdevelop
> > 
> > <nitpick>
> > KDevelop doesn't generate the autotools files either, the admin dir
> > comes straight from KDE's kde-common/admin and the Makefile.am's are
> > hand-written. That stuff is just copied to the target dir.
> > </nitpick>
> > 
> >> as I said in a previous post, before upgrading kdevelop (and 
> >> regenerating the templates) not even make dist used to work...
> >>
> >> probably now also the make distcheck issue is solved...
> > 
> > Oh, then I misremembered and misunderstood :) I thought you still had
> > problems. I guess the reason it works now is that KDevelop doesn't ship
> > its own admin dir, but instead uses teh one from KDE 3.5.
> > 
> > So to conclude: nevermind :)
> 
> well I don't know whether I still have problems with make distcheck 
> since I haven't tried since then...
> 
> so kdevelop does not create the admin dir?  or did I get it wrong?

KDevelop has two admin dirs, one that helps building KDevelop itself and
another one that is included with the appwizard and turned into a tarbal
when installing KDevelop (and is contained in the binary packages in
distro's). These latter admin dir was manually-copied from the first
one at  some point in history. Of course it got outdated and wasn't
updated often. So before the 3.4.0 release we changed that, so the
appwizard-admin dir is fetched from the same place as the admin dir for
KDevelop and all other kde modules (its kde-common/admin, using
svn:externals if that tells you anything). So now if make distcheck
fails for a newly created automake project, it'll fail for all KDE3
modules (unless that project template has a bug). So its rather easy to
know which is the case: Just run make distcheck on any other KDE module,
if that works the project template is broken (and you can file a BR
against that in kdevelop). If it doesn't work report to KDE and they'll
fix the admin-dir in kde-common, so on the next KDevelop release you'll
automatically get the fix for new projects.

Existing projects need manual updating by extracting the new
admin.tar.gz from share/apps/kdevappwizard into the project.

Hope that clarifies.

Andreas

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