trying to install kdelibs (kde4)

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:59, Winfried wrote:
> According to the instructions at for example
> http://developer.kde.org/build/compile_cvs.html I did the following:
>
> created a new user account 'kde4'
> checkout kdelibs-snapshot in /home/kde4/kde4_checkout
> cd kdelibs4_snapshot
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/kde4/kde4 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
> .. make
>
> No problems so far.
>
> Then I did 'make install' as user kde4. This fails because make tries to
> install some things in /usr/local/lib. The first one is:
>
> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> /home/kde4/kde4_checkout/kdelibs4_snapshot/obj/kdefx/cmake_install.cmake:30
>: FILE error when creating symlink from: /usr/local/lib/libkdefx.so to
> libkdefx.so.5
> make: *** [install] Error 255
>
> The kdefx/cmake_install.cmake line looks as follows:
> FILE(INSTALL DESTINATION "/usr/local/lib" TYPE SHARED_LIBRARY PROPERTIES
> VERSION 5.0.0 SOVERSION 5
> FILES "/home/kde4/kde4_checkout/kdelibs4_snapshot/obj/lib/libkdefx.so")
>
> So why does cmake/make try to install things in /usr/local/lib even though
> I defined CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX?
>
> Is there another/better way to setup a kde4 development system?

Please post the result of "grep INSTALL CMakeCache.txt" in your kdelibs build 
dir, probably LIB_INSTALL_DIR is wrong.

Bye
Alex
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