> Hello,
>
> In this moment, cmake support for tqtinterface, arts and kdelibs are ready
> for
> building tests.
>
> Some info about cmake build system:
>
> 1) preffered mode for building are "out-of-source", which prevent sources
> to
> be "polluted" with generated files and compiled objects (in kde4
> out-of-source mode are mandatory).
>
> For example, tqtinterfaces will be configured in this way:
>
> mkdir /tmp/tqtinterface
> cd /tmp/tqtinterface
> svn co
> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/trinity/dependencies/tqtinterface
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../tqtinterface
> make -j 3
> make install DESTDIR=/tmp/tqtinterface/install
>
> 2) There are some standard rules to activate/deactivate features:
>
> For example, kdelibs have: WITH_LIBART, WITH_ARTS, WITH_TIFF, etc (for
> rest of
> options check kdelibs/CMakeLists.txt)
>
> For compile kdelibs with arts and tiff and without aspell, we will run:
>
> cmake -DWITH_ARTS=ON -DWITH_TIFF=ON -DWITH_ASPELL=OFF <path_to_sources>
>
> 3) If we need to alter standard install directories we have variables like
> BIN_INSTALL_DIR, SYSCONFDIR, XDG_MENUDIR.
>
> Example:
>
> cmake cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde3 -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc <sources>
>
> 4) Enabling RPATH:
>
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/lib
>
> ###################################
>
> (almost) complete example, kdelibs for ubuntu:
>
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde3 \
>   -DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/kde3/include/kde \
>   -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc \
>   -DWITH_LIBIDN=ON -DWITH_SSL=ON -DWITH_LIBART=ON \
>   -DWITH_ALSA=ON -DWITH_ARTS=ON -DWITH_CUPS=ON \
>   -DWITH_JASPER=ON -DWITH_OPENEXR=ON -DWITH_ASPELL=ON \
>   -DWITH_TIFF=ON -DWITH_LUA=OFF \
>   <path to kdelibs sources>
>
> LUA support are disabled because is not done yet.
>
> If you won't using RPATH, ensure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is correcty set,
> otherwise kdelibs will fail when will try to use mcopidl.
>
> For testing, are preferable to use big number of concurrent compile
> processes
> (-j 10, for example), to check if all dependencies are compiled in proper
> order.
>
> --
> Serghei
>

OK, thanks for the status update!

It will take me some time to get the latest build system together as I am
currently in the middle of the Ubuntu release; hopefully I can start
building these packages on the next couple of weeks.

Tim