Re: Building kate as documented on the web page

On onsdag 2 februari 2022 12:11:40 EET Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) wrote:
> On 2022-02-02 08:50, slbtty wrote:
> > I think rolling-distro users like us are actually the minority.
> > 
> > Stable-distro users don't have new libraries. If they ever want to
> > build from source, they are highly going to manipulate the code. If
> > so, letting them get sources from the master branch can avoid dealing
> > with already fixed bugs in dependencies.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think if you have a distro that up-to-date that you can do that, you
> don't need any howto.
> 
> Without kdesrc-build you can't build it on any normal distro that is not
> rolling release
> that is not bleeding edge.
> 
> Beside, if you want to work on other parts, a kdesrc-build setup is nice
> to have
> and it will properly setup the stuff for clangd if used like described.
> 
> If you want to add to the howto the cmake variant, feel free to submit
> some merge request
> with some extension to this page, I would have no issues with proposing
> that there, too,
> for people like you ;=)
> 

That is actually also how I have built Kate and KTextEditor on KDE Neon for years :) 

The downside is that if I temporarily need a newer version of some KF5 library than what 
Neon provides (no release yet) I might have to keep building newer versions until I do a 
proper cleanup of installed cmake files for that library...

Cheers,
  Kåre

> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> > Just guessing.
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 5:23 PM Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> on kate-editor.org, the documentation how to build kate basically only
> >> talks about how to build it using kdesrc-build:
> >> https://kate-editor.org/build-it/
> >> 
> >> 
> >> To me, this seems quite complicated.
> >> 
> >> I just installed the KDE development packages from my distro (OpenSUSE
> >> Tumbleweed), ran cmake on the kate source tree, and then I can build
> >> it successfully, and to me it appears much simpler and more
> >> straightforward.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Why isn't this recommended ?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Alex