Version mismatch when building trunk

[David Faure]

On Thursday 15 October 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday, 2009-10-15, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:33:24AM +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> >
> > Hej Kevin,
> >
> > > Somehow whoever changed the requirements for kdelibs forgot to update
> > > Qt in kde-qt (which as I understand it serves the same purpse qt-copy
> > > had prior to Qt's switch to gitorious).
> > > It still seems to be 4.5.2 or maybe I am doing something wrong when
> > > pulling updates?
> >
> > You have to do a
> >   git checkout origin/4.6-stable-patched
> > to switch to the 4.6 branch.
> 
> Ah, good to know that there is a work around in case the problem isn't
>  fixed until the next time I have a couple of hours available for KDE
>  hacking.
> 
> It is still kind of annoying that updating the Qt branch used for KDE
> development and change of requirements weren't coordinated better.
> 
> I would have expected that kde-qt had been updated *prior* to increasing
>  the minimum required version of KDE's build system files.

It had been updated already: the 4.6 branch has been available for some time 
already. It's just that you assume that pulling or checking out kde-qt would 
bring it automatically, but apparently git doesn't work that way. You need to 
switch branches yourself. See earlier posts by Thiago about it.

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