Compile KF5 into Docker

[Mathieu Tarral]

Hi David,

Le 04/01/2015 13:55, David Gil Oliva a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> El dia 04/01/2015 12:39, "Mathieu Tarral" <mathieu.tarral at gmail.com
> <mailto:mathieu.tarral at gmail.com>> va escriure:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as you know, building KF5 from source may not be an easy task, due to
>> build dependencies which may or may not be available for your distro.
>>
>> That's why I started to compile KF5 into a Docker container.
>>
>> This way you can keep your main system clean, and avoid to install a lot
>> of *-dev packages.
>>
>> I would like to share a set of Dockerfiles which will build
>> an image with all the necessary build dependencies already installed.
> 
> Instead of a set of Dockerfiles, each one for a different distro, which
> makes for a lot of duplicated code, could it be written in a single
> Dockerfile which checks the OS and does as approppriate for that OS?

Actually, a Dockerfile is just describing how to build a specific system
image.

It just gives the necessary instructions like DO something, then DO
something else, and It has not been designed to receive parameters, nor
handle conditions.

Furthermore, you cannot merge these Dockerfile into one because their
base systems are different (Ubuntu, Archlinux, OpenSuse, Fedora).
The first instruction of each Dockerfile is FROM <base_system> and it
cannot be configured.

Having one Dockerfile per distro is nice, because you can see the
differences between them, mostly for package naming and default packages
installed.

> Another issue that I see is the Qt version. Can we rely on always having
> the needed version from the ubuntu-sdk-team repository?

This repository provides packages for Qt5, in version 5.2.1
It's not the latest version of Qt5, so one day you might have kf5 build
issues because of this.

But I haven't found an up-to-date repo for Qt5 yet.
Maybe we should download Qt5 from qt.io in this case ?

Regards.

-- 
Mathieu Tarral