Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[David Faure]

On Saturday 19 February 2005 16:37, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 16:05, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> 
> > From where I stand, complexity *has* exploded already. To take a recent
> > example : just a few weeks ago, someone on the RG mailing list had to deal
> > with a missing '-fexception' flag, even though it's specified in our
> > Makefile.am. This problem has happened repeatedly, mostly at random, for
> > many people ever since RG development started under KDE. That's 5 YEARS.
> 
> I don't had a look at the RG build system.. but we do have 
> $(KDE_USE_EXCEPTIONS) in quite some places in KDE as well and there was not a 
> single reported problem so far. I don't doubt that there might be a bug in 
> your build system regarding this issue. 

Actually we had the exact same problem in koffice reported a few times,
but the answer was simply that Makefile.cvs had aborted before, so the variable
didn't have the right value being set.

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/koffice/2003-March/001459.html

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).