please make it easier to hack on frameworks

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 29 April 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi ...
> 
> today i am unable to work on plasma-frameworks. this is because i am
> currently unable to compile the frameworks branch of kdelibs. in turn,
> this is because i do not have a recent enough version of cmake.
> 
> the cmake version required is 2.8.10.20130411. this isn't even a release
> version of cmake, but a dated snapshot! i am left with the option of
> moving to cmake from git (something i really would like to avoid) or not
> working on plasma-frameworks (which is not really an option for me).
> 
> i am sure there was a good reason to move to this new version of cmake. i
> am also sure that requiring devel versions of build tools to work on
> frameworks limits the people who can and will work on it.
> 
> would it be possible for someone who feels reponsible for frameworks 5 to
> institute some more developer-friendly requirements here?

it neither builds for me:

[  1%] Building CXX object 
libkdeqt5staging/src/CMakeFiles/kdeqt5staging.dir/qurlpathinfo.cpp.o
cd /home/alex/src/kde-git/KDE/kdelibs/build/libkdeqt5staging/src && 
/usr/bin/c++   -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_BYTEARRAY -
DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_KEYWORDS -DQT_NO_URL_CAST_FROM_STRING -
DQT_STRICT_ITERATORS -DQT_USE_FAST_CONCATENATION -DQT_USE_FAST_OPERATOR_PLUS -
D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -
Dkdeqt5staging_EXPORTS -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wcast-align 
-Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security -fno-exceptions -
DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -fno-check-new -fno-common -Woverloaded-virtual -
Werror=return-type -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wnon-
virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -
Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security -fno-exceptions -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -fno-
check-new -fno-common -Woverloaded-virtual -Werror=return-type -
fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -DQT_NO_DEBUG -
fPIC -I/home/alex/src/kde-git/KDE/kdelibs/build/libkdeqt5staging/src -
I/home/alex/src/kde-git/KDE/kdelibs/libkdeqt5staging/src    -o 
CMakeFiles/kdeqt5staging.dir/qurlpathinfo.cpp.o -c /home/alex/src/kde-
git/KDE/kdelibs/libkdeqt5staging/src/qurlpathinfo.cpp
/home/alex/src/kde-
git/KDE/kdelibs/libkdeqt5staging/src/qurlpathinfo.cpp:44:23: fatal error: 
qfileinfo.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** 
[libkdeqt5staging/src/CMakeFiles/kdeqt5staging.dir/qurlpathinfo.cpp.o] Error 1


Is my Qt too old ?
Can we version check that ?

Alex