[Kde-extra-gear] Porting Digikam core to KDE CVS...

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 15:24, Klas Kalaß wrote:
| Hi Gilles,
|
| I just tried to compile kdeextragear-libs-1 and kdeextragear-3 and found
| that the import of digikam introduced a couple of problems.
|
| First of all, the idea of the libs module is that it may *not* depend on
| any kdeextragear* module and that no main kde module may depend on it.
| Furthermore, apart from the dependency from kdeextragear-n on
| kdeextragear-libs-n there must not be any dependencies between KDE Extra
| Gear Modules.
|
| That said, currently kdeextragear-libs-1 depends on digikam which is in
| kdeextragear-3. Please move the digikam lib to kdeextragear-libs-1 (kl1) to
| resolve that issue.
It does? In thats case it is clearly a bug.
In what way?

| Second, the configure checks in kl1 do not work properly. They should fail
| when not all prerequisites are met, disabling only those parts which have
| those prerequisites. But currently configure went fine even though I do not
| have imlib-devel installed and although I am missing digikam lib (which
| should be in kl1 anyways).
The imlib issue is indeed something to be resolved.
Anyone arround with enough configure knowledge to solve it?

| In kdeextragear-3, the import of digikam caused configure to bail out
| completely when requirements of digikam are not met.
| This must not happen, you need to make sure that digikam is simply disabled
| from compilation when your prerequisites are not met. But please tell the
| user what was disabled and why :-)
That part I know nothing about.

Cheers
Jesper