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So I woke up this morning to notice that my kdesvn-build --refresh-build run from last night had a hiccup somewhere:

The problem was kdelibs failed to install, which meant every subsequent module error-ed out during the CMake process. The problem with kdelibs was related to me having an old library installed in my Qt directory since I hadn’t cleared out my Qt/KDE installation directories first (whoops).

It would be really annoying to have to type out each module to build just to skip the first four that had built right. Luckily I don’t have to do that, instead this sufficed:

$ kdesvn-build --no-src --resume-from kdepimlibs
Script started processing at Sat Dec 12 19:04:24 2009
< <<  Build Process  >>>
Building kdepimlibs (1/21)
        Preparing build system for kdepimlibs.
        Removing files in build directory for kdepimlibs
        ...

The magic here is the --resume-from command line option which skips until the given module in the build process. --no-src is only available since kdesvn-build-1.10, use --no-svn if you haven’t upgraded yet.

Posted by mpyne under Computing Troubles & KDE & kdesvn-build & Useful Tricks | 1 Comment »

So our brothers/sisters at the GNOME Project managed to hit the front page of Slashdot.

There’s a lot one could say about the topic, but I’ll just leave it at this: I think it’s ironic that a project started essentially entirely due to the non-Free nature of Qt (at that time) would decide to separate from the Free Software Foundation and GNU based on Richard Stallman’s disapproval of proprietary software. I guess the times, they are a-changin’.

Posted by mpyne under Personal & Political | 16 Comments »