Pam Roberts (Re: compiling kde3)

[Tim Wunder]

Previously, Keith Antoine chose to write:
> On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:08 am, you wrote:
> > The difference I think is that I am taking source code straight from CVS
> > whereas I believe that you are downloading the CVS snapshots,, which are
> > always a bit out of date especially around the time of a release. If you
> > are interested in getting the latest and greatest try using cvsup:
> > http://www.kde.org/cvsup.html
>
> Well installing that scared the shit out of me. There are no binaries for
> linux that I can see and to install it from src files is an apparent
> nightmare. I did download some files but at ech one it needed something
> else and it would not compile without another thing or doing it a way I had
> no idea about. Why so damd complicated ? Guess that i am getting to the
> stage where I know some things and others are beyond my capabilities, pity!
>
> Thanks anyway.

I found using standard cvs, rather than cvsup, to be sufficient. At one point 
I had a current cvs tree for KDE3 on my PC, but it lost out due to the 
addition of a bunch of WAV files. Restoring my old LPs has taken a priority 
over trying to maintain a cvs tree for KDE3. 

I followed the instructions here:
http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html

It was pretty painless, actually. Pam's script should help you.

Someone sent me a script that was supposed to automate the whole she-bang, I 
think I still have it...yep. Let me know and I'll make it available to you, 
either e-mailing it off list or putting it up on my webserver. Be warned I 
haven't actually USED the script, a member of the kde-user list had it up on 
his web site and i grabbed it. Also, the cvs sources are supposed to have a 
script that does a similar thing.

Regards, 
Tim


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