Newbie Question: Setup on RH7 for development

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

Dear Roland,
I wonder if you find time to share your experience on using kdevelop on
solaris with me. Are there some good tutorials/textbooks on this topic?
thanx alot
Giorgi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailing list agent [mailto:mdom at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de]On
> Behalf Of Roland Krause
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 3:27 AM
> To: kdevelop at kdevelop.org
> Subject: RE: Newbie Question: Setup on RH7 for development
>
>
> I think,
>
> you are getting a little too far out there.
>
> There is *no* need to upgrade a kernel or upgrade XFree86 or anything
> like that. Version kdevelop-1.4 the cvs version of yesterday runs on my
> Solaris box which has never seen a Linux kernel nor an XFree X-server.
>
> If you have a stable Linux box, dont f.ck with that for no reason. I'd
> suggest you install everything into a local directory with no
> sideeffects to the distribution. Just use something in your
> homedirectory for it or /usr/local. This will guarantee that nothing
> gets overwritten. Dont work as root then you cant damage things.
> Just decide on one directory where your development tree will install
> (e.g. /usr/local/qt2 /usr/local/kde2) and then stick with it.
>
> In one month or so you will be able to buy Mandrake-8 which comes with
> KDE-2.1 and Xfree-4 and 2.4.2 and on and on for 3 bucks on cheapbytes.
> No reason to waste hours resolving dependencies.
>
> Get the tarballs for KDE-2.1 and qt-2.3.0.
> Unpack and compile qt-2.3.0. If you dont have Xft, and you havent
> missed at yet, there is no reason to compile it for Xft. Run configure
> --help, read the INSTALL and README files, it will tell you everything
> necessary to build qt-2.3.0.
> A tip, if you dont have any KDE-2 installed yet, then qt-2.3.0 will not
> build with the -kde option. Disable it, bootstrap the bitch and then
> recompile the sucker.
>
> Unpack all the KDE-2.1 packages you want, you need a minimum of
> kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase but as soon as you have that you want to
> probably get the rest also.
> Unpack, configure, compile and install these one by one.
>
> IMPORTANT: to get this all to work properly you need to set QTDIR to
> your new directory where you decided to install qt2 and KDEDIR to the
> appropriate directory where you decided to install KDE2.
>
> After that I strongly recommend cervisia. You can tell cervisia to
> checkout from the kde cvs server. You can even ask it to fetch a list
> of available modules. Then get the CVS sources for the KDE_2_1_BRANCH
> tags with cervisia, it is really simple. Finally get the kdevelop
> versions from CVS, your best bet will be to get one stable version to
> work out of (KDE_2_1_RELEASE), a current 1.4 (KDEVELOP_1_4) version and
> the HEAD version. Also the KDEVELOP_1_4 version is also pretty stable
> already, just remember to keep one version to actually work with.
>
> Regards
> Roland, who thinks that most distributions have become quite
> proprietary these days
>
> --- Jonathan Gardner <gardner at sounddomain.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Giorgi Lekishvili wrote:
> > > > > Xfree86 4.0.2,
> >
> > Talk about a bear to install. I went to www.xfree86.org and they want
> > me to
> > run their special little installer program. Okay, no panic, just
> > weird.
> >
>
> =====
> --
> Roland Krause
> In the garage of life there are mechanics and
> there are drivers. Mechanics wanted!
>
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