New requirement for kdelibs?

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> An: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:01, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> > > I am getting a
> > >
> > > "Could NOT find shared-mime-info"
> > >
> > > message after updating kdelibs, my build was fine 12 hours ago. It looks
> > > like a CMake check for an executable, update-mime-database. Is this a
> > > new requirement?
> > Yep. You probably have a package, or look to:
> > http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info
> > 
> And as always there is no win32 package + this programm depends on glib. How should someone who wants to develop with Qt4/kdelibs4 on win32 understand that he needs glib?
> 
> Holger Schroeder and me managed to compile this program with a static glib on win32.
> But please tell us when there is a new external dependency the next time so we can react earlier instead wondering why kdelibs won't compile anymore after a svn up...

Yes, sorry that I didn't remember the possible win32 troubles with this.
I have been working on shared-mime-info for a long time (and blogged about it ;),
and the migration is difficult in a number of aspects, I forgot the win32 aspect.

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