Building multiple source modules

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Michael Jansen wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 January 2011 18:57:32 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi Allan,
> >
> > On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have recently been worried about the increasing number of modules KDE
> > > is being divided in. Having to checkout, configure and build a huge
> > > amount of individual modules seems to greatly increase the time it
> > > takes for developers to build new test versions of KDE. This is
> > > especially true if you make changes to basic libraries and want a full
> > > KDE installation rebased on the modified libraries.
> >
> > Same here...
> > Great that you started working on a solution ! :-)
>
> What is the problem with tools like
>
> http://kdesrc-build.kde.org
> http://michael-jansen.biz/build-tool
>
> They do even more work for you like automatically updating, configuring and
> building.
>
> I really would like to know what mpyne and i have to do to get you guys
> switching to one of those tools and stop trying to solve those problems
> yourself each time.

I'd really like to know what I have to do to get you guys try to use and if 
necessary extend the tool we are using, CMake, instead of trying to solve 
those problems yourself each time ;-)

Alex