Building
kdepim from the 3.5.13
source tarball results in
two include libkcal directories:
$PREFIX/include/libkcal
$PREFIX/include/kde/libkcal
All but two of the header files are in the latter
directory.
In KDE 3.5.10 there was only $PREFIX/include/libkcal.
Why is kdepim creating two libkcal directories? Is
there a
way to patch that?
does your package system allow you to modify the
package tree? why not just do a quick "mv" and put
all the headers into the correct dirs?
I thought about that but closer inspection of the kdepim
package shows a whole bunch of $PREFIX/include/kde/..
subdirectories. I suspect there is a fundamental problem
with the make files that should be fixed.
Looks like the fix was straightforward: a one line patch in the libkcal CMakeLists.txt
file.
Almost. Kipi-plugins still would not build. Further inspection showed the kdepim build
process placing numerous header files in $PREFIX/include/kde rather than $PREFIX/include.
I then modifed all of the kdepim CMakeLists.txt files that did this.
Patch:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/patches/kdepim/include-dirs.patch
After applying the patch and rebuilding kdepim, the affected header files were installed
to $PREFIX/include/ rather than $PREFIX/include/kde/.
Building kipi-plugins then succeeded.
The kdegraphics package also creates this subdirectory.
Patch:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/patches/kdegraphics/include-dirs.p…
As most of us here do not build every single additional package in the applications tree,
there could very well be other apps that will fail to build because of this unexpected
location of kdepim and kdegraphics header files. The kipi-plugins package might be the
exception but who knows. That most of us do not build these additional packages likely is
why nobody discovered this problem earlier. Perhaps we should have a policy of building
every single package before releasing source tarballs?
KDE 3.5.10 does not have a $PREFIX/include/kde directory. I don't know why this
happened with Trinity.
With that said, possibly this $PREFIX/include/kde subdirectory was created because of
conflicts with KDE4/QT4. If that is the case then packages such as kipi-plugins need
patching to find the header files in the new location. Also a subdirectory name of
$PREFIX/include/trinity or $PREFIX/include/kde3 would be better than $PREFIX/include/kde
so nobody confuses those header files with KDE4 files.
If there is no conflict then would somebody please merge these patches in svn? If the
patches cause conflicts with KDE4/QT4 then let me know and I'll try to patch
kipi-plugins accordingly.
Darrell
