[Digikam-devel] Working environment

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Pawel,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, [UTF-8] PaweÅ^B Marciniak wrote:

> Angelo Naselli wrote:
>
> > mercoledì 21 novembre 2007 alle 12:50, Paweł Marciniak ha scritto:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I remember that I once came across a post/article that told how to
> >> configure kdevelop for hacking digiKam. I cannot find it anymore, do any
> >> of you remember where it was and could point me there?
> >>
> >> I would like to setup kdevelop and environment variables so that I can
> >> run/debug digiKam or kipi-plugins directly from kdevelop, without the
> >> need to run make install. The thing is that I want the debugging apps to
> >> use the svn versions of libs (kexiv2, kipi etc.) instead of the ones
> >> installed in my system.
> > As far as kipi-plugins concern just use the kipiplugins.kdevelop file
> > released into libs directory take care of changing the
> > --prefix=$HOME/your/installation/path into configure option
>
> But I don't want to install anything! I want to use the libs that get built
> inside src subdirectories. That's my point.
>
> > and if you run
> > from a konsole remember to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as
> > $HOME/your/installation/path/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or lib64)
>
> That's what I do when I just run the alternative svn versions without
> messing with my stable system installation - I install digiKam & libs in my
> homedir and everything works. But, as mentioned above, I want something
> different now.
>
> > and run
> > kbuildsycoca. Run your preferred host application...
>
> Could you explain what running kbuildsycoca would do in such situation?

Somehow this is necessary, so that all the newly built
stuff is found correctly (following the defined PATHs)
when running digikam.

Well, this is not really a profound answer, I just use it
and it works ... ;-).
Maybe someone else can explain it properly ...

Best, Arnd