Compiling modified libkate with kdevelop 3.5

[Antoine Calando]

> > I am working with last svn versions from branch 3.5 of libkate and kdevelop.
> > 
> > I have done some little modifications in libkate, I overwrited my system libkatepart
> > library files with the new one, and when starting kdevelop, it was working
> > fine.
> > 
> > The problem is that, after I made bigger modifications in the kate API and tryied
> > to use the new files, kdevelop is crashing during the launch. Ok, it is because
> > it needs to be recompiled with this new kate API, but when I recompile it,
> > I always get this crash. I suppose it is still linking/including old libkate files.
> > 
> > My problem is that I cannot understand where is the link in kdevelop repository
> > with kate. I searched through makefiles, there is no place where kate is included
> > or linked, except "languages/cpp/app_templates/kateplugin", but I guess this is 
> > not the right place.
> > 
> > My system is actually a big mess, with many different kdevelop and kate sources
> > and binaries more or less built and installed, so it is quite hard to understand
> > which are (and where are) the dependencies.
> > 
> > I would welcome any hint on how kdev 3.5 is using libkate.
> 
> Kdevelop doesn't use kate directly. It uses the KTextEditor classes from
> kdelibs and loads the katepart library dynamically during the startup. How
> exactly this works in kde3, I don't know. There's a .desktop file for
> libkatepart somewhere, KLibLoader or something like that from kdelibs is
> involved and also the KDEDIRS variable is used to find out from where to
> load libkatepart.

Thanks for your inputs Andera. After trying a few dirty patches, I did a full
make install of kdelibs and it finally worked.

Regards,

Antoine