KDE4 build questions

[Albert Vaca]

KDE 4 is several years old and the current code is meant to work only
with KF5 instead. Is there any reason you stick to KDE4?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Billy <billybrawner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Joe, I overlooked that detail. I'm actually on KDE 5, so it will probably
> be different for you. My apologies!
>
> Billy
>
> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 08:12:34 PM Joe Pearson wrote:
>> Thanks Billy
>> I had looked at that page and not followed all of it because it seems to
>> be for KDE 5.
>> I was able to cmake and make extra-cmake-modules from the link you gave
>> - but it gave messages about optional packages missing, in particular
>> Qt5Core. And paying careful heed to the warning about 'make install' as
>> root not always being reversible, I'm going to proceed cautiously. Are
>> you on KDE 4?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On 19/06/16 19:32, Billy wrote:
>> > Hi Joe,
>> >
>> > I'm a newbie to this too, and ran into the same error. I took a look at
>> > the
>> > KDE build guide though:
>> > https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source
>> >
>> > It looks like you can get it from the extra-cmake-modules package though:
>> >
>> > apt-get install extra-cmake-modules
>> >
>> > I'm on openSUSE though, so not sure if that's accurate. It looks like you
>> > can get it from source though too:
>> >
>> > http://superuser.com/a/912259
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Billy
>> >
>> > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 07:14:36 PM Joe Pearson wrote:
>> >> Hello KDE Connect dev community!
>> >> I'm a beginner at this although I have a bit of experience in Java,
>> >> Python, Perl and some slightly older languages.
>> >> But not with cmake...
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to build kdeconnect-kde on Kubuntu 14.04 (Qt 4.8.6 KDE
>> >> 4.13.3). I grabbed the source via
>> >> git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdeconnect-kde.git
>> >> But I'm getting cmake errors:
>> >>
>> >> Could not find a package configuration file provided by "ECM" (requested
>> >>
>> >> version 0.0.9) with any of the following names:
>> >>       ECMConfig.cmake
>> >>       ecm-config.cmake
>> >>
>> >> There's no package matching ECM in the repositories and a web search
>> >> suggests it's a KDE 5 thing.
>> >>
>> >> What should I be looking at to resolve this?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> joe
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