My build of Kate seems not use my build of KIO

[Waqar Ahmed]

If you use kdesrc-build, this should get automatically handled.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 7:32 PM Alain Laporte
<alain.laporte12345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I must enable LD_LIBRARY_PATH modification in the prefix.sh file to force it to use the altered KIO:
>
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH only needed if you are building without rpath
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/alaporte/projects/kde/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> And after that, my modification is taken into account. It's strange because ldd point on the right library:
>
> alaporte at alaporte-ThinkPad-T480:[16:29:36]:~/projects/kde/src/kde/applications/kate (display-python-inner-function)$ ldd /home/alaporte/projects/kde/usr/bin/kate | grep KIO
>        libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5 => /home/alaporte/projects/kde/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5 (0x00007f4aa1208000)
>        libKF5KIOGui.so.5 => /home/alaporte/projects/kde/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libKF5KIOGui.so.5 (0x00007f4aa1191000)
>        libKF5KIOCore.so.5 => /home/alaporte/projects/kde/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libKF5KIOCore.so.5 (0x00007f4aa0f46000)
>
> Kate build doesn't use rpath?
>
> Alain Laporte.
>
>
> Le mer. 15 juin 2022 à 12:38, Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) <christoph at cullmann.io> a écrit :
>>
>> On 2022-06-15 08:19, Alain Laporte wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have try to fix the issue
>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446019 with that MR =>
>> > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/866 and it
>> > works fine on Dolphin. But for Kate, it doesn't work and I don't know
>> > why.
>> >
>> > After checking the code of the FileBrowser plugin I see the
>> > KDirOperator class is well used, and internally it uses the
>> > KNewFileMenu. The list of MIME types is well passed to
>> > setNewFileMenuSupportedMimeTypes() =>
>> > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/addons/filebrowser/katefilebrowser.cpp#L80.
>> > And when I remove the text/plain MIME type I can't create a new file.
>> >
>> > But I don't understand why when I rebuild KIO and after Kate, I don't
>> > see my debug logs in KIO. I suspect the KIO project is not used and I
>> > use the KIO from my system. But I don't understand why it works on
>> > Dolphin and not on Kate.
>> >
>> > See above, commands used to build KIO and Kate and start Kate:
>> >
>> > desrc-build --no-include-dependencies --no-src kio && kdesrc-build
>> > --no-include-dependencies --no-src kate && kde_app_src kate
>> > The script kde_app_src is in Bash and contains:
>> >
>> > source ~/projects/kde/build/kde/applications/$1/prefix.sh
>> > $1
>> >
>> > Do you have an idea?
>> > Thanks,
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> from your description, this should work as intended, if the build
>> contains your altered KIO.
>>
>> Kate does nothing special there, just the usual linking with it
>> and doesn't do any special handling to load e.g. the io slaves in
>> a different way.
>>
>> Perhaps check with ldd if the kate binary really links to the proper
>> stuff
>> and if the values of the QT_PLUGIN_PATH things match the expectations.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>>
>> >
>> > Alain Laporte.
>>
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