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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patching up KDE2 Snapshots
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2000-03-31 7:52:36
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Hello Michael and Jono,

Am Don, 30 Mär 2000 schrieb Michael Koch:
> Am Thu, 30 Mar 2000 schrieb Jono Bacon:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have been using the KDE2 snapshots and patches to
> > keep my home, non-connected system up to date. I seem
> > to be having lots of patching problems.
> > 
> > The problems I am having at the moment are with
> > kdebase. When compiling kdebase I seem to get errors
> > that it can't find header files that I have got. My
> > envoirenmental variables QTDIR, KDEDIR, PATH and
> > library paths are set correctly as well.
> 
> I dont know what the problem here is. Can you provide is with more details ?
> e.g the error output ?
>  
> > When I compile I don't do a 'make -f Makefile.cvs'
> > before ./configure. Should I do this ?
> 
> I tested this and when a 'make -f Makefile.cvs' is made no diff can be patched
> in anymore because the Makefile.in's differ. Dont know if this is a real
> problem or not. IMO it would be a very good step to let the user make the
> 'make -f Makefile.cvs' and make diff only from the raw cvs checkouts.
Yes, I had this "problem", too. But because 'make -f Makefile.cvs' recreates
all Makefile.in's, you can safely ignore the Makefile.in.rej's which are
created by the patch program and remove them from time to time.

Ciao,
   Michael
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