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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: New to KDE devel.
From:       Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-02-07 15:33:53
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On Wednesday 07 February 2001 15:20, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2001 14:07, broucho@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > here is my first message on the kde-devel mailing list and I hope
> > there're will be others more helpfull for you than this one where I'm
> > just begging for some advice ! The reason I'm here is because I attended
> > the KDE conferences at the Linux expo in Paris. They were 2 conferences :
> > one from David Faure and another one from Gerard Delafond (who presented
> > the translation project). I found them both well done and was actually
> > impressed by the good organisation of this project. It was really
> > interesting to talk to the KDE people. I finally decided I could somehow
> > contribute since I like C/C++ programing.
> >
> > I need to get into it first before I can help in any manner :
> > I downloaded the sources of kde2.1 beta 2 and try to install it on a suse
> > 7.0.
> >
> > My first question is :
> > is there a way to install it in a different directory than /opt/kde ? I
> > had already the kde1.x installed with suse7.0 and it makes kind of a mess
> > with the "make install" which puts every in /opt/kde also. I wrote a
> > script to change all /opt/kde of all Makefiles but I guess there's more
> > to it since it doesn't do a great job.
>
> try using ./configure --prefix=/your/kde2/path
>
> > Second question :
> > I then removed my suse packages of kde and install the kde2.1B2. It works
> > fine beside the fact that my kdm is kinda sick (not well configured). I
> > edited the kdmrc but it doesn't take it into account. Is this config file
> > still valid for this version ?
> >
> > Third question :
> > I had never used automake and autoconf before. It's not clear to me where
> > this acinclude.m4 comes from ! It's in every AC_INT so I guess this file
> > is generic for all KDE application ? Am I right ? The reason I'm
> > wondering that is because I started writing small application to get some
> > practice w/ KDE API and I don't want to use Kdevelop. But hold on ...
> > don't understant me wrong, Kdevelop is for sure a great tool but I'd
> > rather keep using my good old Xemacs w/ Makefiles which allows me to
> > understand better the way things work. Is there somewhere a template
> > since all applications seems to be based on automake and autoconf.
>
> Get kdesdk from CVS, there is a nice script that just build a new app
> skeleton. It's called kapptemplate

It built a whole browser the last time I checked. :-}

- Frerich
 
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