Re: [Lxde-list] Build whole lxde-qt from git source: an updated guide

[PCMan <pcm...@gm...>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgr...@kd...> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 October 2013 14:09:14 PCMan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I finally find some time to finished the document:
>> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source
>>
>> If you find any errors, feel free to correct them since it's a wiki page.
>> Thank you.
> I had a look at it, can of course not find any errors, but can give you
> hopefully some ideas on how to make it better.
>
> * don't install to /usr/local but specify the install directory in the cmake
> command. That way one doesn't have to be root to install and it get's way
> easier to just delete the complete install dir before a rebuild.

Yes, that's also what I want to do, but I don't know how to make it correctly.
I tried to google for how to do this in cmake but did not find a good
doc for it.

> * do out of source builds where possible. This also helps to just delete all
> build directories without having to go into each directory. And it doesn't add
> things to the git managed directories

Sound's good, I'll try.
We, however, also have several automake-based projects which requires
in source build. Or do you know how to do out of source builds for
automake-based projects?

> * add a CMakeLists.txt to you main git repo to at least be able to just run
> cmake once for all the cmake based sub-modules
Yes, I tried it but failed.
Some components require that other core libs to be installed first,
such as libqtxdg and liblxqt. I don't know how to use cmake to install
them locally without root permission. Besides, if I install them
locally by settings prefix, how can I install them correctly to the
system when using make install?
Besides, since we have automake-based projects, I tried cmake the
external project command. However, it did not work as well as
advertised and had some limitations.

> * have a look at kdesrc-build [1] (perl script) that is wonderful for having
> dependency based builds from source code

OK, I will try, but I cannot read perl. lol

Thank you for the suggestions.

> Cheers
> Martin
>
> [1] http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/
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