Kdesvn-build Script Manual
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Kdesvn-build Script Manual

Michael Pyne

Carlos Woelz

Revision 1.6 (2008-01-14)

Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008 Michael Pyne

Copyright © 2005 Carlos Woelz

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Kdesvn-build is a script which builds and installs KDE directly from the sources found in the KDE Subversion repository.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
Preparing the System to Build KDE
Setup a new user account
Ensure your system is ready to build KDE source
Setup Kdesvn-build
Setting the Configuration Data
Using the Kdesvn-build script
Setting the Environment to Run Your Fresh KDE
Changing your startup profile settings
Starting KDE
3. Script Features
Feature Overview
Kdesvn-build's build logging
Logging overview
4. The Format of .kdesvn-buildrc
5. Command Line Options and Environment Variables
6. Using Kdesvn-build
Preface
Basic Kdesvn-build features
qt-copy support
Standard flags added by Kdesvn-build
Changing Kdesvn-build's build priority
Installation as the superuser
Showing the progress of a module build
Advanced features
Partially building a module
Using Unsermake
Branching and tagging support for Kdesvn-build
How Kdesvn-build tries to ensure a successful build
Changing environment variable settings
Resuming builds
Changing options from the command line
Features for KDE developers
Building API Documentation
SSH Agent checks
Other Kdesvn-build features
Changing the amount of output from Kdesvn-build
Color output
E-mailing build failure reports
Removing unneeded directories after a build
7. CMake, the KDE 4 build system
Introduction to CMake
8. Credits And Licenses

List of Tables

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