Hi James, On Tuesday, 2010-01-12, James Tyrer wrote: > Might I first say how much fun it is to try to figure out what versions > of various libraries to install by trial and error. It is really great > fun, and I'm not finished yet. > > After some Googling, it appeared that reading the CMakeLists.txt files > in KDESupport was a good idea, and discovered (in Soprano) that > Redland-1.0.5 is required. > > I hope that I can still express -- am still allowed to express -- my > opinion which is that this is totally unacceptable. There is no error > message indicating which version is required anywhere -- nothing in the > lists that scroll by indicating whether or not you have met the > dependency requirements. There is no sanity check option which prevents > Soprano from compiling if you don't have the correct version. It > compiles fine. I am not sure it is required for Soprano in the sense of backend, but for some build time tools in kdelibs (for processing some of the semantic input stuff IIRC). > Then you go on to compile KDELibs and there is no indication of a > problem when you run CMake. The first real indication that there is a > problem is that the compile of KDELibs fails with an error. So the check for this dependency is probably missing there. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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