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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patching up KDE2 Snapshots
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2000-04-01 13:51:09
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Am Fre, 31 Mär 2000 schrieb Jono Bacon:
> --- 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?
Nope. You can do a 'make -f Makefile.cvs' every time you want,
but you have to run in before a ./configure, that's right.

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