Emerge issues - #4

[DeveloperChris]

Thank you

I am rebuilding everything again. I found I have to enable and disable short 
paths alternately to get things to compile.

I guess the precompiled executables will depend on what is required. I want 
to create a custom version of kmymoney and would like to statically link as 
many components as I can so precompiled executables may not help. but then 
again perhaps it would be a lot easier than what I am doing now.

I too would like to help make this process as painless as possible. but 
being a total newb to kde/emerge/portage I am still discovering how 
everything gets put together.

Regards
Developer Chris
DeveloperChris at rebel.com.au

On 18/04/2013 3:21 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 17 April 2013 22:37:36 DeveloperChris wrote:
>> When Trying to install phonon-vlc 0.5.0-1 I get the following error
>>
>> ||CMake Error at /lib/cmake/phonon/PhononTargets.cmake:66 (message):||
>> ||
>> ||  The imported target "Phonon::phononexperimental" references the file||
>> ||
>> ||     "//lib/libphononexperimental.dll.a"||
>> ||
>> ||  but this file does not exist.  Possible reasons include:||
> when I ran into this problem a few days ago, I was able to get around it by
> turning off EMERGE_USE_SHORT_PATH. Not a fix, but a workaround.
>
> That said, turning off the short paths later caused trouble while compiling
> kdelibs (where some files were expected to be in the short paths). I have not
> resolved that, yet, and I think I will probably have to re-do some steps.
>
>> I must say it is a long and annoying process to get this to work and with
>> these issues its easy to get turned off. I actually started this process
>> over 2 years ago and gave up the first time around. This time I am not going
>> to give in.
> Yes, it is a lot more cumbersome than it would look like in theory, and in
> fact I believe that really is a significant barrier, turning off interested
> developers from KDE on Windows. Let me spam this list once more with the idea,
> that the project should offer snapshots of %KDEROOT% for download, at least
> whenever a release was made. For KDE 4.9, mingw4, 32bit, I offered an archive
> of my %KDEROOT%, here:
>    http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=135541718223018&w=2
> (kdelibs and dependencies, only).
>
> Regards
> Thomas