Trouble with kde-build

[Leo Spalteholz]

On April 6, 2005 01:03 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This list seems pretty quiet, one message in two days... But perhaps
> > someone is out there that can help a clueless newbie like me.  I want
> > to get into KDE development and so I am trying to compile the
> > KDE_3_4_BRANCH. Just the base system from the modules arts, kdelibs,
> > kdesdk, and kdebase. I followed the instructions, and get to the point
> > where I am supposed to run the kde-build scripts.
> > This script fails and I get the following output.
> >
> > kdestable at pherthyl:~/src/kde$ ./kde-build --no-update
> > Checking module arts (no cvs update)...done!
> > Checking module kdelibs (no cvs update)...done!
> > Checking module kdebase (no cvs update)...done!
> > Checking module kdesdk (no cvs update)...done!
> > ERROR: Please execute 'make -f Makefile.cvs' first for module arts!
> >
> > However I checked in the arts subdirectory, and I can't find a
> > Makefile.cvs, so I'm not sure what I should do at this point.  The log
> > file for arts has nothing enlightening in it..
> >
> > Anyone know what I've messed up here?
>
> Did you download: ARTS_1_4_BRANCH from CVS?  And, install it?

Thanks, that was the problem.  I had set the BRANCH (in kde-buildrc) to 
KDE_3_4_BRANCH but forgot to uncomment BRANCH_ARTS so it was downloading 
some minimal arts module from the KDE_3_4 branch which wouldn't compile.

Thanks,
Leo