beginner questions about emerge

[Saro Engels]

Clinton Reddekop schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I am interested in KDE programming and would like to try it on my 
> Windows XP computer.  I am starting at the very beginning, with no prior 
> experience with KDE, linux, or any open-source project.  I hope someone 
> can help me with some simple questions about emerge.
> 
> Question 1:
> I understand that to build a target, the command is 'emerge [target]', 
> and was just wondering where I could find an exhaustive list of all the 
> possible targets.  That is, if there is one ;)
There isn't a list there yet - you can look into the 
%KDEROOT%\emerge\portage directory: there you can find subfolders which 
_contain_ the targets (e.g. %KDEROOT%\emerge\portage\KDE\kdesdk\ for the 
target kdesdk). This list isn't too long and most packages are already 
installed via the dependency checking of emerge.
> 
> Question 2:
> Once emerge builds a target, assuming the target is an application will 
> there be a .exe file for that application, or what - in other words, how 
> to I run the target once it is built?  As an example, say I build the 
> kate editor with the command 'emerge kate' - how would I then run the 
> kate editor on my computer?
Binaries are installed to %KDEROOT%\bin\. You cannot emerge kate since 
it is contained in the target (kde module) kdesdk.
%KDEROOT%\bin\kate.exe should exist after 'emerge kdesdk'.
There will be a way to make start menu entries soon, it isn't really 
ready though yet.
> 
> Question 3:
> I've been following the instructions at
> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
> to set up emerge.  I got to the part where it says to run 'emerge qt', 
> so I did.  For a while it seemed to be downloading files, then it got to 
> one it had a problem with:
> 
> ...
> 
> 19:49:11 (69.60 KB/s) - `c:/distfiles/redland-1.0.3-5-lib.zip' saved 
> [230941/230
> 941]
> 
> wget ret: True
> --19:49:11--  
> http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/win32libs/single/shared-mime-
> info-0.23-bin.zip
>            => `c:/distfiles/shared-mime-info-0.23-bin.zip'
> Resolving download.cegit.de... 82.149.170.66 <http://82.149.170.66>
> Connecting to download.cegit.de|82.149.170.66|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 19:49:12 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> wget ret: False
> emerge fatal error: command fetch failed
> emerge fatal error: running python 
> c:\kderoot\emerge\portage\dev-util\win32libs\
> win32libs-20080104.py fetch
> 
> I'm not sure what is wrong.  Someone suggested updating emerge from svn, 
> so I did that, but I still have the same problem.  Can anyone help me to 
> get this working?  Thanks.
This error was fixed in 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=119951408318067&w=4
so you have to make sure you update your emerge directory to at least 
that revision (or to HEAD).
> 
> Clint
> 
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