Trying to build kdelibs for Harmattan, N9(50)

[Laszlo Papp]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some follow-up after 5-6 weeks. :)
>
> The kdelibs package has built fine on the Community Open Build
> Service. It is still the source version from the middle of July (not
> the newest release). I will try to upload the recent version soon.
> https://build.pub.meego.com/package/show?package=kdelibs&project=home%3Arzr%3Aharmattan
>
> It is distributed fine in this repository:
> http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/rzr:/harmattan/MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan_Maemo.org_MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan_standard/armel/
>
> You can also put the following line into the /etc/apt/source.list:
> deb http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/rzr:/harmattan/MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan_Maemo.org_MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan_standard/
> ./
>
> I hope it helps you with writing kde applications on Harmattan. If
> someone has time and sake, it is probably also a good idea to get the
> workspace and runtime projects packaged.
>
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried to spend the last 1 week with packaging kdelibs for
>> Harmattan, Maemo 6 (from recent git master head,
>> active-development/4.7). I could achieve it locally (scratchbox) by
>> now. Each important package seems to be built on the Community OBS as
>> well, apart from the kdelibs project which is still under building. It
>> is very hard to do it quickly since it takes me a lot of time (3-4
>> hours, sometimes even more with my relatively new laptop) in
>> scratchbox to build it. The Community OBS environment is even slower
>> since it installs a chroot environment for the target and it installs
>> more things than just the dependencies. That is why I could not still
>> achieve the kdelibs build on the Community OBS site, thus I am really
>> sorry for that (the uploaded debian folder should be more or less
>> correct and it might need some smaller modifications).
>>
>> Here is my repository:
>> https://build.pub.meego.com/project/show?project=home%3Adjszapi
>> and
>> http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/djszapi/MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan/armel/
>>
>> We have been trying to establish and use a proper shared community
>> repository on the Community OBS, thus the packages could be found in
>> one place (and one entry would be needed to add to the
>> /etc/apt/sources.list file on the phone). This is coming soon,
>> hopefully.
>>
>> I would like to express my gratitude to the people who helped me so
>> far along the way: Debian packagers, other experienced Community OBS
>> packagers, and Volker Krause for pointing me out to David Faure's
>> patch about the automoc issue and so forth.
>>
>> It is not complete or working yet, but there is some progress. If
>> someone could help with packaging, that would be awesome. :) There are
>> also optional dependencies that I could not manage yet because of the
>> lack of time. Feel free to contact me, and I hope I can see more KDE
>> projects soon ported to Harmattan, N9(50). :)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Laszlo Papp
>>
>