[Kde-games-devel] compiling kblocks

[Ian Wadham]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:57 am, Dapeng Zhang wrote:
> Now I can complie and run "kblocks" in KDE4 by the following commands.
>
> make
> make install
> kblocks
>
> Do you know if there is a faster way in which make install can be skipped?
>
If it is like other KDE Games, you need to do "make install" only at the
start of some development work or whenever you change graphics files,
*ui.rc,  data files, etc.  Otherwise you can just do:

    make
    ./kblocks

to compile, build and run the code you just edited.  You can also have:

    alias r='fc -s'

in your $HOME/.bashrc file, to alias the "repeat" command of the
"bash" shell.  Then you can do:

    r   m
    r   .

to repeat the above commands over and over when testing.

Sounds like an interesting project, Dapeng.
All the best, Ian W.

P.S.  If you do as I suggest, a "kblocks" command will get you an OLD
version of the program and you might be wondering why bugs you
just fixed are re-appearing.  It's the oldest trap in the Unix/Linux book.
So be careful of that one ... ;-)