Phonon

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:26, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2011, Harald Sitter wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> >> phonon-buildsystem is only used to build the backends. Applications
>> >> should *not* be using the stuff in there. If they manage to find
>> >> FindPhonon.cmake from phonon-buildsystem, the application's build has a
>> >> bug. Our FindPhonon.cmake looks for FindPhononInternal.cmake, which adds
>> >> some build magic for the backends, such as telling them we have
>> >> pulseaudio support, where to install the backend library, and some
>> >> standard compilation flags across all backends.
>> >
>> > FindKDE4Internal.cmake was done in cmake 2.4.0 times.
>> > Since cmake 2.6.0 cmake supports finding XXXConfig.cmake files, installed
>> > in lib/cmake/XXX/.
>> > So you could install a PhononConfig.cmake file, which contains all the
>> > information you want. This file will be found directly by cmake, and it
>> > will be "cmake-conform", no messing around with pkg-config.
>> > I would strongly recommend to do this.
>> >
>> > The pages here: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake/Tutorials explain how to do
>> > this.
>>
>> There is a branch for that (SaroEngels was working on it), never got
>> merged thought *shrug*.
>
> Sorry, stupid git questions follow:
> why doesn't "git branch" show me this branch ?
> I did a git pull now, which said
> ...
> Resolving deltas: 100% (192/192), completed with 62 local objects.
> From git://anongit.kde.org/phonon
>   d53377a..f902a8f  cmake_tng  -> origin/cmake_tng
>  * [new branch]      kio-by-default -> origin/kio-by-default
>   83eda0a..3fbf916  master     -> origin/master
>  * [new branch]      no-automoc -> origin/no-automoc
>  * [new branch]      systemtap  -> origin/systemtap
>   8cea8fc..6d4ad57  threaded-streaming -> origin/threaded-streaming
> Updating 83eda0a..3fbf916
> Fast-forward"
>
>
> So I tried "git checkout origin/cmake_tng", which told me other weird things:
>
> hammer:~/src/kde-git/kdesupport/phonon$ git checkout origin/cmake_tng
> Note: moving to 'origin/cmake_tng' which isn't a local branch
> If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
> (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
>  git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
> HEAD is now at f902a8f... Merge branch 'cmake_tng' of git.kde.org:phonon into
> cmake_tng
> hammer:~/src/kde-git/kdesupport/phonon$
>
> What do I make out of this ?

That you should head into #kde-git and ask for some help learning git
branches if you haven't already. :)

Ian