[OE-core] RFC: Porting KDE Plasma Active (WIP)

[Koen Kooi]

Op 1 mrt. 2012, om 14:24 heeft Samuel Stirtzel het volgende geschreven:

> Just to let you know that I'm still working on this.
> 
> The git repository (at [1]) shows what was currently done, since
> kdelibs builds now it could  be possible to port other programs that
> depend on it.
> 
> 
> The good and the bad news:
> Good:
> * Most things will compile and install
> * Workarounds should be easy to understand
> Bad:
> * There are workarounds for cruel hard-coded "where to find and
> install" strings in CMake files
> * My popularity as KDE developer decreases every time I ask "Why does
> package <XYZ> installs it's CMake files into the libdir?"
> * ^ Of course this is a joke, but some really do..
> * The user has to install kdelibsX-dev (X is either version 4 or 5)
> since KDE (like Koen already stated) needs to execute KDE/Qt programs
> that depend on the whole KDE stack again in a native flavor.

Can we just build them natively and put them in the host sysroot?

> 
> 
> 
> About the current status:
> The main dependency kdelibs builds but in do_package there is a
> ominous QA error:
> ERROR: QA Issue: kdelibs4 rdepends on kdelibs4-dev
> Since this error message is important, it will not help (me) much to
> resolve the error.
> In other words is there any way to debug this?

No testlab in oe-core, but buildhistory pretty much does the same: http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/cms/the-testlab-strikes-again

regards,

Koen