[Kde-pim] kdepim unbuildable with kdesrc-build

Martin Graesslin mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon Aug 24 13:17:14 BST 2015


On Monday, August 24, 2015 2:05:59 PM CEST Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> 
> too bad - that is for sure not the expirience we want to have. But can you
> give us some more informations. You said, that you have "an older version
> installed"
> - is that another version built by kdesrc-build?

yeah, that was another master build done by kdesrc-build

> - do you have a version installed by your distribution?

Yes, but that one didn't interfere and is "only" a kde4 version

> - what environment variables you have touched?

only the normal env variables to start a plasma session from a prefix - 
nothing which should affect a build.

Cheers
Martin

> 
> Regards,
> 
> sandro
> 
> --
> 
> > 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 link outdated installed files instead of the newly build ones.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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