CMake and kdebase

[Adriaan de Groot]

Well, since kdelibs builds with CMake just fine (see the dartboard for 
results), I figured it was time to try out kdebase. This is where one rapidly 
runs into the lack of canonical knowledge about CMake -- and a little 
laziness wrt. reading the entire CMake manual. Here's some comments based on 
current output (using CMake 2.3.3). Phrased in an unfriendly manner.

Syntax error in cmake code at
(no filename given):-1:
syntax error, unexpected cal_SYMBOL, expecting cal_RCURLY (12), when parsing 
string "$ENV{ PATH } = '/bin:/usr/bin';"



This is wretched, since without a filename you're reduced to grepping for that 
string in the sources and hoping you can find it. Here, there's a .pl.in file 
which has been converted to .pl.cmake 
( ./khelpcenter/searchhandlers/khc_docbookdig.pl.cmake ) and something's 
wrong in there. I suppose cmake does .in handling differently.



CMake Error: can not find 
file /mnt/tmp/kde/kde-4.0/kdebase/workspace/kdesktop/kdesktopsettings.cpp


Again, no pointer to which CMakefile this happens in. It can be deduced from 
the source file mentioned here, though. The problem comes from this bit in 
the CMakefile:

set( kdesktop_KCFG_SRCS kdesktopsettings.kcfgc  klaunchsettings.kcfgc )
kde4_add_kcfg_files(kdesktop_LIB_SRCS ${kdesktop_KCFG_SRCS})



and ... then something mysterious happens. Is last month's version of CMake 
too old?