Problems while attempting configure the CI to build Konqueror for both KF5 and KF6

[Nicolas Fella]

Am 01.10.23 um 16:37 schrieb Stefano Crocco:
> Hello to everyone,
> in the last weeks, I worked on making Konqueror compile with both KF5 and KF6.
> I had all the code on my PC and today I tried to upload it on GitLab. I
> created a kf6 branch for Konqueror, pushed the code in my Konqueror fork and
> created a merge request [1] for the kf6 branch. However, I don't know what to
> do so that the CI tries compiling the code both with KF5 and KF6.
>
> I wasn't able to find any documentation explicitly stating how to do this, so
> Konqueror's current .gitlab-ci.yml with that of other KDE programs, I added
> the following two lines at the former:
>    - https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/raw/master/gitlab-templates/
> linux-qt6.yml
>    - https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/raw/master/gitlab-templates/
> freebsd-qt6.yml
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work: the CI will indeed try to compile
> Konqueror with both KF5 and KF6 in linux and FreeBSD, but the compilation with
> KF6 fails in both platforms. I don't know whether this is because I didn't
> correctly configure the CI or because there's something wrong in the way I
> changed the CMakeLists.txt files (on my system Konqueror built correctly with
> both KF5 and KF6).
>
> The error message I get from the CI is the following (the full build log is
> attached):
> Exception: Unable to locate requested dependency in the registry: kdesu
> (branch: kf5)
>
> If I read this correctly, it seems that the system tries to find kdesu in the
> kf5 branch which seems wrong, since the compilation should be for KF6.
> Looking at the CMakeLists.txt files, I can't spot anything wrong. Before going
> on investigating them, I'd like to be sure that what I did to make the CI
> compile Konqueror with KF6 is correct and there's nothing else to do. Can
> anyone give any hints or pointers to documentation about this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Stefano
>
> [1] https://invent.kde.org/network/konqueror/-/merge_requests/237

Hi,

you need to adjust .kde-ci.yml to pull the KF dependencies from the
@latest-kf6 branch group. See for example
https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/blob/master/.kde-ci.yml

Cheers

Nico