renaming kde-config to kde4-config
Alexander Neundorf
alexander.neundorf at gmx.net
Tue Jul 4 00:48:48 BST 2006
Am Montag 03 Juli 2006 22:24 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 17:22, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 26 June 2006 23:07, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > > AFAIK kde-config is for build systems, developers and maybe internals
> > > of KDE.
> >
> > kde-config isn't used by kde at runtime. So it's only for the build
> > system and for debugging a kde setup.
>
> It's also used by third party apps that want to know where they need to
> install their stuff so that KDE knows about these apps. With the various
> freedesktop.org specs that is becoming less of an issue, but there are
> probably apps out there that detect KDE based on the presence of
> kde-config.
Yes. So when using kde-config, they check for KDE 3 presence, when using
kde4-config, they are checking for KDE4 presence.
Alex
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