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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice:: Krita TRUNK vs. Eigen
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-09-13 19:43:01
Message-ID: 48CC17C5.9010100 () acm ! org
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 
>> Which is in KDESupport :)
> 
> Yes? That's not news, is it?
> 
>> So just doing a make install in kdesupport would have been enough, as JRT did, 
>> he was completely doing it correct and really didn't need to read commit 
>> messages or specific files.
>>
>> Its templates based code, so if something like this fails I'm afraid the best 
>> suggestion is to just do a clean make...
> 
> He probably messed up something in his install. For a linux-from-scratch user
> he's generally not too good at compiling and installing from source.
> 
Unfortunately, building from source doesn't always work correctly.  This 
is usually caused by a problem with the source package.  This is why the 
LFS distro exists.  While most packages install install with no problem. 
  Some need patches, or extensive instructions to get them installed 
correctly.

Sometimes, installations from source get corrupted, or things that you 
did to get some other package to install screw up the installation of 
other packages.  Obviously, my Eigen &/| Eigen2 installations were 
corrupted.  I am puzzled about this since I have KDE4 TRUNK installed in 
its own directory (/usr/local/KDE-Trunk) and delete the whole thing from 
time to time as start over because installations of TRUNK do seem to 
become corrupted from time to time because you never do a "make uninstall".

I asked the question because I recently finished spending considerable 
time running down exactly what the problem was with KDE-4.1 BRANCH and 
Strigi.  I think that that mystery is now solved.  I wondered if there 
was an issue of a specific version requirement here.

I think that you will find that I am quite proficient at installing from 
source.  Do you have most of your installation installed from source?

-- 
JRT
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