[gentoo-dev] Important instructions to manually compile kde apps

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

Hi all,

Right now, with the "multi-kdelibs scheme", to compile a KDE app you need to 
do:
---
export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kdelibs-$ver
./configure --prefix=/usr[/local]
---
(/usr/local being recommended for manually compiled apps)
Also, kdevelop requires a correct KDEDIR setting (like the one above) to run 
configure scripts.

I want to put this KDEDIR setting into /etc/env.d. This may cause people who 
don't read the above instructions to run configure without parameters, and 
their app will then install into KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kdelibs-* which is bad. They 
won't be expecting that because /usr/local is the default, but KDEDIR 
overrides it in this case.

So, this needs to be put somewhere where many people will see it - a FAQ item 
probably, but most people don't read the FAQs until they have a problem.

Suggestions? Where should this go?

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel