Re: Kstars hardware control in KDE 4.1 packages.
On 2008-07-25, Gerrit Jan baarda <gjbaarda@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 20:54:37 Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> > 1. Me doing something stupid :)
>> > 2. A problem with the current debian package.
>> > 3. An upstream problem that is not been flagged up to the upstream
>> > developers.
>
>> At least (parts) of the indi stuff gets built and installed during the
>> packaging. I don't have any ways to test it myself (I think).
>
>> But it could be all three of it. Unfortunately, debugging is much up to
>> you (or other interested peoples), but if you track it down to 2)
>
> I downloaded the kdeedu source package and I noticed there was a patch in the
> '/debian/patches' directory with the name 'disable_indi' it contains:
In earlier versions, indi didn't build, so we disabled indy temporarily, but ..
> #disable_indi
> 97_fix_target_link_libraries.diff
the # is a comment, meaning that the patch isn't used (but still around
if we ever feel like using it again)
The patches to apply are read from the seriess file - except lines
starting with a #.
> I compiled kdeedu with the 'disable_indi' file removed, this compiled fine, but
> installing the new packages gave no improvement.
Kind of expected as the patch is disabled.
> Off topic:
> I'm not very familiar with debian packageing, is there a quick way to just
> build kstars instead of the whole of kdeedu?
patching the kstars dir and running make inside builddir, followed by
fakeroot debian/rules binary should build binary packages without
cleaning everything up before.
But first time, you need to build the entire thing.
/Sune
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