[Kmymoney-devel] svn testing/install answer

[Jack]

Hi Peter,

On 2010.02.08 01:03, pml1 at wuzel.de wrote:
> Am Montag, 8. Februar 2010 02:55:37 schrieb Alvaro Soliverez:
> 
>> you should be able to have both installed side-by-side, since the  
>> executable and folder names are different.
> >
>> The KDE4 executable and folder are named kmymoney, while the older  
>> ones are called kmymoney2.
> 
> I think Jack wants to run 3.95 and latest svn in parallel, so both  
> are KDE4:
Right.

>>>> I finally got the 3.95 release installed under Gentoo.  I'd like  
>>>> to also have a local copy of the latest svn version for testing,  
>>>> but I don't want to overwrite the stable distro package.
> 
> Jack already found a way to do this. I do this differently  by  
> skipping the install step completely and running the script  
> kmymoney.shell in the directory build/kmymoney. This script is  
> generated during build. If I want to debug, I simply insert "gdb" in  
> the right place in this script.

I guess I just didn't look hard enough.  This is easier than what I  
ended up doing, since it saves the "make install" step.

Christian - to me, the non-obvious part was getting the 'development'  
version to find the right libraries.


Jack