[Kde-pim] kdepim unbuildable with kdesrc-build

[Volker Krause]

Hi Martin,

sorry about that.

I'm not exactly sure what is wrong here, I use kdesrc-build myself, for kdepim 
and everything else of KDE I use, and never had this issue with kdepim. Last 
time I saw similar issues was in the very early KF5 days, when stuff was still 
moving a lot, and you are right, these issues are very frustrating to debug.

I also usually have the old builds still around, both in build and install 
locations, so that sounds similar to your setup, and my kdesrc-build 
configuration is pretty much vanilla upstream.

I'm also not aware of anything non-standard we do regarding library search 
paths etc, so without further input I unfortunately have no idea how to 
improve the situation :-(

Anyone else seeing this, or similar issues with building manually? Which 
library is picked up over which other one in the case things go wrong, for 
which target, and what do the CMake config files say for those libraries? I 
have seen switching between debug and release builds creating duplicate config 
files, and thus resulting in an outdated one still being around after some 
time, something similar might be happening here.

regards,
Volker


On Monday 24 August 2015 10:54:04 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> Hi pim-devs,
> 
> I just spent two hours trying to build kdepim. I finally succeeded and I
> have a running kdepim from master again. Hey, I don't have the time to
> spend hours on trying to build kdepim, this is blocking my work.
> 
> Let's go a step back and look at the root problem: one cannot build kdepim
> if an older version is installed. So I run kdesrc-build last week, which
> worked for hundreds of projects, but failed for kdepim, because it tries to
> link outdated installed files instead of the newly build ones. I ignored it
> last week, but this morning kmail crashed and I was unable to start due to
> newer libraries errors (kmime and others were updated after all). So I had
> to try to build kmail.
> 
> The experience is horrible: I had to figure out which files to delete, by
> manually running make, see the error message, delete the offending file, run
> make again, wait and continue.
> 
> Unfortunately all of that did not help, in the end I did:
> ./extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kdesrc-build --refresh-build kdepim
> 
> Which did not just a refresh-build of kdepim, no! It started the complete
> module with 21 projects. Unfortunately kdepim means the module-set and the
> module. So I wasted another half an hour compile time on rebuilding stuff I
> didn't need.
> 
> As you can read from this mail: I'm rather frustrated by the build setup of
> kdepim. Could you please fix that stuff. If you want kde-developers to test
> pim, make sure that it can be build with kdesrc-build. If you cannot ensure
> it, remove it from kdesrc-build. Running kdesrc-build and afterwards having
> a situation where
> a) you cannot start kdepim any more
> b) you cannot compile it
> isn't really helpful for getting people to test your latest work. If I have
> a broken kmail after running kdesrc-build I must look for another email
> client as I cannot spend 2 hours every few days to get back to my mails.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
> P.S.: I'm not subscribed to this mailing list
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