> From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
> Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] Building qt3
> To: trinity-devel@...
> Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 4:18 PM
> On 25 October 2011 17:12, Darrell
> Anderson <humanreadable@...>
> wrote:
> > I notice the developer's wiki has been updated and
> mentions that qt3 should be build with Trinity sources
> rather than built from distro sources.
> >
> > I am building qt3 from the original 3.3.8b sources and
> applying my own patches. That approach worked okay last
> spring.
> >
> > I presume any patches applied in the past no longer
> are needed because they are included in the Trinity
> sources.
> >
> > Problem is I don't see a tarball for the Trinity
> sources. I don't know how to use git.
> >
> > I would appreciate somebody updating the wiki to
> provide some guidance. :) Or provide sufficient details
> here, which later can be added to the wiki.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Darrell
> 
> you definitely need to use the version from git. you are
> right that we
> need to make some notes in the wiki about it as well.
> 
> What you need to do is "clone" the tde repository:
> 
> git clone http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde
> 
> that should be all. from there the building is pretty
> simple. qt3 is
> in main/dependencies/qt3
> 
> If you want to add a note to the Wiki on the how to build
> page, that
> would be great :)
> 
> Calvin Morrison
> 

I appreciate the response but suddenly I'm knee deep.

Everything becomes "simple" with experience and knowledge. :) I have neither with building qt3 from these new sources.

To where do I save this git repository? Currently I have a segregated build directory where I store Trinity SVN.

If I run the git clone command, how much am I downloading? MBs? GBs?

Am I supposed to be building all packages from git or only qt3?

I would update the wiki (and have several times in the past), but I haven't a clue about what I am doing. This all might be old news to those of you who have been doing this for the several months, but I am clueless about what is happening here. :)

Thanks.


Darrell