[Kstars-devel] build problems

[Jeff Woods]

Several months ago, I offered to implement the observing list feature 
listed as a to-do item on the kstars site.  I had much of the work done 
about two months ago, before I ran out of time due to graduate course 
work which had to be completed.  I was also having some trouble with my 
Qt library headers after upgrading to kde-3.2.1 (rpms for SuSE taken 
from the kde ftp site), and didn't have time to resolve the problem.  
Before the upgrade, I was able to build kstars-20040229 without any 
trouble... after the upgrade, there were errors in the Qt headers 
building the same source.

I now have a couple of weeks to continue work on the observing list.  
Since last working on it, there have been several major commits to the 
project so I decided to update my CVS tree before continuing work.  
Unfortunately, I received a number of conflicts in code with which I am 
not familiar.  Instead of resolving each, I wiped out my CVS tree (after 
placing my work to the side), and pulled an updated copy.  Now I'm stuck...

I have no configure scripts or Makefiles.  The files present in the 
kdeedu and kstars base directories do not seem to be sufficient to 
create the files I need to execute a build:

1.  in the kdeedu root directory, I have a configure.in.in.  autoconf 
requires configure.in.  Running autoconf with configure.in.in produces 
no output.
2.  In the kdeedu directory, I also have a Makefile.am.in.  This looks a 
bit like a qmake project file, though I'm not sure what to do with it.  
It is interesting to note that both Makefile.cvs and the Makefile.am.in 
reference an "admin" directory off of kdeedu, but it's not present...
3.  I've opened the kstars.kdevproj file in the kstars directory, but it 
complains of missing a configure script or Makefile when I try to 
build.  It is not able to generate them itself.

How can I get the kdeedu package, or kstars, to build from CVS without 
these files?  Once I am able to build the files, I will continue working 
on the Qt header issues.  With any luck, I can have the observing list 
completed for the feature freeze.