<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Shaun Reich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaun.reich@kdemail.net">shaun.reich@kdemail.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Honestly, running a separate user for it just makes everything more a<br>
pain than it should be.The better way is to just run it under your<br>
user but use different environment variables when you want to run<br>
master apps. Your crash is likely caused by the fact that you<br>
attempted to run an application (Dolphin) from master, yet it was<br>
still using the $QTDIR from /usr/.., in other words probably too old.<br>
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I just have a command, "runmaster" which switches the current shell to<br>
one that has all the environment vars setup to run a compiled<br>
application. This way I can have a stable desktop, and run and test<br>
things from master manually and whenever I want to.<br>
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Actually, yes, I see that your QTDIR is pointing to /usr. That is<br>
incorrect for building from source.<br>
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Truly, I recommend not going the separate user route, that's sort of<br>
why it's not well documented. Mostly because it shouldn't be used..in<br>
fact, I even added it somewhere a long time ago saying that other<br>
methods are better than a separate user (no idea if it's there or not,<br>
some people go too crazy on wiki edits and don't preserve enough past<br>
info).<br><br></blockquote><div>That is completely the opposite of what was suggested to me in the last few months of the kde svn days. Back then it was specifically suggested to use a separate user for kde developing stuff. Don't know who suggested it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I personally like to have it all as a separate user since then everything is just at one place and i can test it as if i had the latest kde version.</div><div>either way, having your script would probably help a lot. Can you put it on techbase?</div>
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