On 5/27/2010 4:44 AM, info@michael-jansen.biz wrote:
>> I am working in a virtual machine.
>>
>> I wiped things out again and started over.
>>
>> Another possible source of problems:
>>
>> http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Developing/Guide  (note that the techbase 
>> article takes one here for openSUSE).
>>
>> 'Install the KDE 4 development prerequisites'   (search for this on 
>> the page above).
>
> Let me say this just once. I have no idea how appropriate it is to 
> discuss that opensuse recipe on this list. If we find problems with it 
> we cannot do anything but hope some of the lurking opensuse guys take 
> action. I guess there is a appropriate opensuse-kde-devel list or irc 
> channel or ...
>
>
I didn't find an opensuse-kde-devel list or whatever.  That is, a better 
place to ask questions.  I did find 
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/ but the 
quality of the answers (if they existed) was, um, uneven, and not very 
useful.

As best I can tell, I succeeded in building kde from source on 
opensuse.  I ran only make first, not make install, because I thought 
the later would clobber my production kde install and, in effect, cut 
off my feet from under me.  That is, leave me with a blank screen with 
the only option being runlevel 3.

It seems that a make install installs into /usr/local (not /usr) so I 
did a make install and rebooted.  I did the make installs from runlevel 
3 so that crucial parts of the gui wouldn't disappear from under me as I 
was installing.

kd4-config now tells me the following:

> kde-devel@linux-w0zl:~> kde4-config -v
> Qt: 4.6.3
> KDE Development Platform: 4.4.81 (KDE 4.4.81 (KDE 4.5 >= 20100527))
> kde4-config: 1.0
> kde-devel@linux-w0zl:~>

Prior to my make install the version was given as 4.4.80 so can I assume 
from the small tick upwards, from 80 to 81, that I'm running my built 
code (as opposed to the code that I downloaded prebuilt from 
repositories)?  I've also checked in a number of other ways (e.g. 
looking through ps aux for kde processes) but still feel unsure as to 
what I'm running.

What's the mechanism whereby, when KDE first gets run, the system knows 
to look, say, at either /usr (not the code I built) or /usr/local (the 
code I did build)?  I looked through $HOME/.kde/ but I didn't find 
anything that seemed to make this decision.

Whether I have or haven't (yet) succeeded, the process of building KDE, 
on opensuse, is long and subject to many problems.  I've fixed all I 
found.  But have I found them all (rhetorical).

pat


 
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