Compilation instruction

[Nate Graham]

On 4/11/21 5:11 AM, Maxime. Haselbauer wrote:
> Hi thanks for your message, I just tried, in a neon container.
> It does not run.
> It seems to me like a very complicated way of building.
> Is there a script that installs all building dependencies with apt  and 
> then only compiles elisa itself ? (skipping compilation of all KDE 
> stuff, since on a neon image it should be available anyway) ?

$ sudo apt build-dep elisa
$ kdesrc-build --no-include-dependencies elisa

The reason why we recommend building everything from source in the 
generic documentation is that installing the dependencies from the 
distro package manager only reliably works for rolling release distros. 
It almost never works for Debian, Kubuntu, or others which ship old 
versions.

And for Plasma, we frequently depend on git master versions of 
frameworks dependencies that we know will be released before the plasma 
version itself, so depending on master is safe. However this means that 
even rolling release distro packages will not work since they will not 
be new enough.

Teaching the user about all these things was deemed to be too hard and 
too overwhelming, so we just tell them to build all the KDE dependencies 
from source for simplicity's sake (only a certain type of simplicity, 
clearly).



Nate