SuperBuild needs kdesdk scripts first

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 24 August 2011 4:31:17 PM Valentin Rusu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After restarting my system with binaries compiled with SuperBuild, I
> find out that I can no longer compile because makeobj is missing.
> My previous session had it from the kdesdk installation (or from
> OpenSuSE's KDE packages - but I uninstalled them all).
> 
> kdesdk is still in the SVN repository. I added this line in my local
> kdesupport/CMakeLists.txt file:
> sb_add_project(kdesdk SVN_REPOSITORY
> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesdk DEPENDS Automoc4)
> 
> However, it won't build as this line also needs makeobj.
> 
> I grabbed the kdesdk sources I already had on my system and started
> compiling them only to see it stopping somewhere in the middle.
> kdesdk/scripts won't build neither as it also needs makeobj (!!).
> 
> In conclusion, makeobj script should be present on the system before
> SuperBuild starts compiling.
> What would be the best place to put it in?
> Maybe we should add some prepare step to superbuild?
> Or modify build-kdesc.sh script to get it install makeobj first?
> 
I had suggested making a kde-scripts repo containing the contents of kdesdk/scripts.
makeobj would be part of that.

then superbuild could install kde-scripts.