[kde-linux] kde4.2

Esben Mose Hansen kde at mosehansen.dk
Mon Feb 2 18:22:43 UTC 2009


On Saturday 31 January 2009 23:49:02 w bugar wrote:
> Why not use ./configure && make && make install like everybody else?
> Just curious.

For KDE (and other cmake projects) that would be 

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make


Note that properly, automake projects would be
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make 

(Because in-source build is so last-century ;) )

As for why, see e.g. here: http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/

-- 
Kind regards, Esben
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