Introduction ...

[Jakob Petsovits]

On Wednesday, 25. April 2007, Sandro Andrade wrote:
> My first doubt is: I successfully compiled the qt-copy, strigi, kdelibs,
> kdepimlibs, and kdebase as suggested in
> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4.
> After checkout the last KDevelop snapshot I tried to follow the
> instructions in
> http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=HEAD/branches_compiling.html,
> but there is no admin/Makefile.common file in the svn tree !!!
>
> I was able to successfully compile KDevelop4 simply by executing cmakekde !
> Is this the right procedure for compilation ? Is the website information
> out of date ?

Yes, the website is out of date. admin/Makefile.common and all the other 
autotools stuff stems from KDE 3 times, while everything in KDE 4 is done 
with cmake, or cmakekde for that matter.

Wishing the best of luck for your contribution efforts,
  Jakob