Superbuild ready for first tests

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 20 June 2011, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2011 4:06:28 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the Superbuild I talked about in Randa is ready for first tests.
> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/superbuild
> > 
> > What is it ?
> > It's basically a CMakeLists.txt which makes it possible to build multiple
> > separate projects in one go (similar to kdesrc-build).
> > Additionally it is possible to create a source package from those
> > subprojects, so packagers which must not access the network during
> > packaging can use those.
> > 
> > So, clone it from git, and try it on kdegraphics.
> > Some documentation is on the projects.kde.org overview page.
> > 
> > Let me know how it works for you, what else you need, etc.
> > 
> > It would be also nice if you could help with documentation etc.
> 
> I tried it over the weekend.
> Extremely cool.
> 
> Here's the doc:
> 
> git clone kde:superbuild
> cd superbuild
> cd kdesupport (or kdegraphics)
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/foo ..
> make
> make install
> 
> this will download and build all  kdesupport (or kdegraphics)
> 
> I guess next steps are to provide SuperBuild-able CMakeLists.txt files for
> all the modules??


Basically yes.
I'd like to get some (more) feedback from packagers first especially on the 
source-tarball feature, e.-g. from the Slackware packagers who want that.

I guess I should post this now to kde-packagers.
Sune, did you already give it a try ?

Alex