The shared-desktop-ontologies mess

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 01.12.09 20:23:23, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> kdebase here still doesn't build for me without SDO.
> We have the following in kdelibs/CMakeLists.txt:
> 
> set(SOPRANO_MIN_VERSION "2.3.70")
> find_package(Soprano  REQUIRED COMPONENTS  
>                       PLUGIN_RAPTORPARSER PLUGIN_REDLANDBACKEND)
> macro_log_feature(SOPRANO_FOUND "Soprano" ... FALSE ... )
> macro_log_feature(SOPRANO_PLUGIN_RAPTORPARSER_FOUND ... FALSE ...)
> macro_log_feature(SOPRANO_PLUGIN_REDLANDBACKEND_FOUND ... FALSE ...)
> 
> macro_optional_find_package(SharedDesktopOntologies)
> macro_log_feature(SHAREDDESKTOPONTOLOGIES_FOUND ... FALSE ...)
> 
> ...
> 
> if(Soprano_FOUND AND SHAREDDESKTOPONTOLOGIES_FOUND)
>   set(HAVE_NEPOMUK true)
>   add_subdirectory(nepomuk)
> endif(Soprano_FOUND AND SHAREDDESKTOPONTOLOGIES_FOUND)
> 
> 
> Which means that soprano and SDO are considered optional in kdelibs and 
> nepomuk is only built of both are present.
> But then in kdepim the installed nepomuk files are used, which then fails: 
> http://my.cdash.org/viewBuildError.php?buildid=39649
> 
> So, am I right that both soprano and DSO should be marked as hard dependencies 
> for kdelibs ?
> Otherwise everything which wants to use nepomuk from kdelibs needs to check 
> whether the installed kdelibs has nepomuk actually.
> 
> So, ok, with making it required ?

Actually no - IMHO. Nepomuk is still marked optional in kdepim in most
parts, so kdepim needs to adjust their buildsystem to really make it
optional. Then they can propose making nepomuk and SDO a requirement for
KDE 4.5. Its far to late in the cycle to change dependencies every other
day.

Andreas

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