KDE4 build questions

[Joe Pearson]

I stick with my current system partly because of laziness and partly 
because of not liking the look of Plasma 5. I will upgrade eventually of 
course. First, I'll set it up in a vm.

I would have thought quite a few people were still on KDE4, but I 
suppose it's a big extra effort to maintain a compatible code base.

On 20/06/16 12:05, Albert Vaca wrote:
> 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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