<div dir="ltr">Greetings Sir/Madam,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking to contributing to the KDE platform, and I was going through the KDE Community website, which is extremely helpful. However, on the Get Involved/development page (<a href="https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Set_up_kdesrc-build">https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Set_up_kdesrc-build</a>), I feel there's an error in the subheading <b>Setup QT. </b>It explains:</div><div><b><br></b></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(49,54,59);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">If your Linux distribution provides a recent version of Qt (5.11 or newer), you can save some time and disk space and use that version instead of building your own. To configure </span><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.125px;color:rgb(232,62,140);word-break:break-word;padding:2px 4px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15)">kdesrc-build</code><span style="color:rgb(49,54,59);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"> to skip building Qt, open the configuration file </span><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.125px;color:rgb(232,62,140);word-break:break-word;padding:2px 4px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15)">~/.kdesrc-buildrc</code><span style="color:rgb(49,54,59);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"> and comment out the </span><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.125px;color:rgb(232,62,140);word-break:break-word;padding:2px 4px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15)">qtdir</code><span style="color:rgb(49,54,59);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"> and two </span><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.125px;color:rgb(232,62,140);word-break:break-word;padding:2px 4px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15)">include</code><span style="color:rgb(49,54,59);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"> lines related to qt5.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div> It isn't correct to comment out the qtdir line in ~/.kdesrc-buildrc, instead the qtdir line should be set to the appropriate path where qt has been installed on your computer.</div><div>For eg. it should look like:<br>             qtdir  ~/Qt/5.12.6/gcc_64 # Where to find Qt5<br></div><div><br></div><div>It has been correctly explain to comment out the include lines, however we shouldn't comment out the qtdir line. I guess that might work if Qt has been installed in the default usr/lib directory, but explaining how to set the qtdir path, can help a lot of people solve cmake and qt errors during build (which I faced extensively).</div><div><br>Regards <br>Kartik</div></div>