Import Automake Project in Kdevelop4?

[Nicolas Alvarez]

Rob Frohne wrote:
> I may not have included something needed in the Kdevelop4 build, because
> when I go to import the project, the little drop down menu (Build
> System) has nothing in it and I can do nothing but go back to the
> previous page in the Wizard.  What am I missing?

Can you explain in detail how you installed kdevelop?

The expected steps are:

- Get the code kdevplatform and kdevelop
- Create a separate build directory for kdevplatform, and run cmake, telling 
it where to install
- Build kdevplatform (make)
- Install kdevplatform (make install)
- Create a separate build directory for kdevelop, and run cmake, telling it 
to install in the same place as kdevplatform.
- Build kdevelop (make)
- Install kdevelop (make install)
- Add the kdevelop installation directory to KDEDIRS, along with the default 
"/usr". For example: export KDEDIRS=$HOME/local/kdevelop. To avoid problems, 
you should modify KDEDIRS for your entire session (eg. with a script in 
~/.kde/env) and restart KDE.
- If you modify KDEDIRS "locally" (not for entire session + restart), you 
should now run kbuildsycoca4.
- Now start kdevelop!

If you don't set KDEDIRS for the entire session, it's possible that another 
application will rebuild the sycoca database, *without* having the kdevelop 
directory in KDEDIRS. That would cause the KDevelop information to disappear 
from the sycoca database, and soon, KDevelop may crash or features may 
mysteriously disappear *while you're using it*.

(In the future, all the above steps would be replaced by "install kdevelop4 
from your Linux distro repository". But we're not quite there yet :P)

-- 
Nicolas

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