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Chapter 6. Using kdesrc-build

Table of Contents

Preface
Basic kdesrc-build features
qt support
Standard flags added by kdesrc-build
Changing kdesrc-build's build priority
Installation as the superuser
Showing the progress of a module build
Advanced features
Partially building a module
Branching and tagging support for kdesrc-build
Stopping the build early
How kdesrc-build tries to ensure a successful build
Changing environment variable settings
Resuming builds
Changing options from the command line
Features for KDE developers
SSH Agent checks
Other kdesrc-build features
Changing the amount of output from kdesrc-build
Color output
Removing unneeded directories after a build

Preface

Normally using kdesrc-build after you have gone through Chapter 2, Getting Started is as easy as doing the following from a terminal prompt:

% kdesrc-build

kdesrc-build will then download the sources for KDE, try to configure and build them, and then install them.

Read on to discover how kdesrc-build does this, and what else you can do with this tool.