Bug 256730

Summary:	kde-config required by some KDE4 builds
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dillon <dillonco>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	pkoegel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dillon 2009-01-29 01:30:50 UTC

Some KDE4 builds seem to require the 'kde-config' program.  This is a bug, however, as KDE4's config is actually called 'kde4-config' (on gentoo at least), and 'kde-config' is for KDE3.

While it would appear that KDE3's config is sufficient to work, if you don't have kdelibs-3.5.* installed, it doesn't exist thus causing the builds to fail.  Incidentally, because kde-config is slotted into /usr/kde/3.5/bin/, these builds could fail under su or sudo unless PATH is updated.

The affected builds are:
pykde4
semantic (0.7.0, from bug 185523)

pykde4 is a particular problem because it fails more-or-less silently, and was only able to get it to build once I discovered this bug via semantic (which basically fails with "kde-config not found").



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove kde-config from PATH
2. attempt to build pykde4 / semantic

Actual Results:  
The build fails.

Expected Results:  
The build succeeds.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-23 09:13:28 UTC

Current stable pykde4 is 4.3.1, and I couldn't reproduce this bug. Or with 4.3.2.

Reopen if this is still an issue.

Comment 2 peter Koegel 2010-02-10 15:15:25 UTC

same problem here with kde 4.3

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-02-10 15:20:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> same problem here with kde 4.3 
> 

What problem? 

It was never clear from this bug report what's wrong.

Missing build.log's, emerge --info's and so forth...