How-to compile KDE 4

Does anybody compiled it?
How?
Could you link me to any kind of informations about compiling it?
Is it possible to modify PAT Slackbuild?

http://kde4.rlworkman.net/

Originally Posted by willysr http://kde4.rlworkman.net/

I didn't like those packages. A big pain .
I got the sources from the KDE svn + Qt 4.4 from kde, got their little script to do the compile, and after about 6-7 hours on my laptop, I compiled and ran KDE4 on my slack and on a debian 4.0 etch. It runs smooth, full of bugs of course, but it is very nice IMHO.

Originally Posted by LordAnta I didn't like those packages. A big pain

Why don't you tell what you did not like about those packages and what was the pain?
I have used them and found them quite OK (apart from the obvious beta quality of KDE 4.0).

Eric

I compiled KDE 4 on slackware using the information on the kde site http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4, I used the Qt 4 slackbuild from slackbuilds.org

Originally Posted by Alien Bob Why don't you tell what you did not like about those packages and what was the pain? I have used them and found them quite OK (apart from the obvious beta quality of KDE 4.0).

For me, I'm not ready to wipe out KDE3.5 yet. I still need to use one or two programs that haven't been ported, and I like having a really stable KDE to fall back on if needed. So, I compile KDE4 myself in /opt/kde4. I would gladly try Robby's packages if they didn't take out KDE3.5...

Originally Posted by Alien Bob Why don't you tell what you did not like about those packages and what was the pain? I have used them and found them quite OK (apart from the obvious beta quality of KDE 4.0). Eric

I used the kde4 packages on a Slackware 12. I had to remove qt and kde3 that came with the distro because they had issues with the kde4 packages (as it was told in a README file). And kde4 didn't work, altough a i have installed all the packages correctly (it was about a month ago).

The pain is that i had to remove the kde3, instead of running kde3 and kde4 togheter on the same system. With the compiled kde4, i have no problem

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate robby's effort the packages, i thank him for his contribution, but until the kde3 and kde4 packages can co-exist on Slack, i will still compile the latest sources from the KDE svn.

Originally Posted by LordAnta I didn't like those packages. A big pain . I got the sources from the KDE svn + Qt 4.4 from kde, got their little script to do the compile, and after about 6-7 hours on my laptop, I compiled and ran KDE4 on my slack and on a debian 4.0 etch. It runs smooth, full of bugs of course, but it is very nice IMHO. ... ... ... I used the kde4 packages on a Slackware 12. I had to remove qt and kde3 that came with the distro because they had issues with the kde4 packages (as it was told in a README file). And kde4 didn't work, altough a i have installed all the packages correctly (it was about a month ago). The pain is that i had to remove the kde3, instead of running kde3 and kde4 togheter on the same system. With the compiled kde4, i have no problem Don't get me wrong. I appreciate robby's effort the packages, i thank him for his contribution, but until the kde3 and kde4 packages can co-exist on Slack, i will still compile the latest sources from the KDE svn.

Could you please give us more informations? I mean about scripts, slackbuilds, or whatever you used and it worked.

First, i checkout from their svn, everything i need:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/
cd KDE
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/qt-copy
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/koffice

Checkout qt-copy only if you don't have qt 4.4 installed already.

Next, i use their script:
http://kdesvn-build.kde.org/releases...ld-1.6.tar.bz2
The archive contains 2 files:

• .kdesvn-build.rc : this is the configuration file. Modify it after your own needs. It must be copied in your home directory
• kdesvn-build: this is the script that takes care of the compilation.

I ussual run it:

  ./kdesvn-build --no-svn

Notice: the space ocuppied by the svn checkout is about 4.5 Gb.
After compilation, another 18-19GB is ocuppied by the build directory + almost 4 GB kde4 + qt.

On my laptop it takes about 6 hours to fully compile. Make a separate user, don't run as root: their was a bug that used to delete things .

I usually make weekly checkouts and compile the code over night.
This way i can have both kde3 and kde4 on the same box, with no conflicts. For now, IMO, it is the only way to have them both on the same box.

Also read:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Star...KDE_4_sessions
and
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Star...E4_development

For any other questions, I am right here.

Great!
Thank you very much. It looks to be the right way to compile KDE, like PAT's slackbuild and KDE-options script in KDE source tree.
So, I think it is going to take me a long time...
I hope I will write you from my KDE 4 next time. ;-)