please make it easier to hack on frameworks

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 29 April 2013 21:46:14 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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 ?

It's odd, qfileinfo.h is far from being new. I'm not sure versioning would 
help in that case.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

Sponsored by BlueSystems and KDAB to work on KDE Frameworks
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