kde 3.5.1 build

[Aaron Grewell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Rick Sivernell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:42 AM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: kde 3.5.1 build
> 
> 
> Anyone have a script or something that will build the kde 
> system 3.5.1?
> I know they have a tool called konstruct, but it puts 
> everything in the users directory. To me that is a bad idea.
> 


It depends.  The advantage of the way Konstruct does it is that it
doesn't mess with whatever your distro does with KDE.  That might not
matter so much with Slack and friends but if you're using rpm or deb you
don't want it overwriting the distribution's built-in KDE with something
you built from source.  That's just going to cause problems for your
package manager, not to mention getting overwritten when you patch.  You
could put it somewhere else (/usr/local, /opt) and if it's a multiuser
machine that would probably be the best course.  I think Konstruct might
even let you do that via command-line switches if you run it as root.
Another option would be to wait until it finishes and cp the resulting
folder to a more appropriate location.  As long as you set your
environment variables properly that should work just fine.  I'd give
Konstruct a run, I've used it before and had pretty good luck with it.