--- Michael Brade
<Michael.Brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> 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.

Does this smean I have to do a 'make -f Makefile.cvs'
before a ./configure? I havent done this on any of my
patches, so if I do need to do it, do I need to
re-download the source?

Cheers,

         Jono



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Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] jono@kde.org
KDE/Qt Developer - Founder of Linux UK 
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