Kdesvn-build Script Manual

Michael Pyne (michael.pyne kdemail.net)

Carlos Woelz (carloswoelz imap-mail.com)

Revision 1.7 (2008-10-07)

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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

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

4.1. Table of Options