On Tuesday 27 October 2009 16:42:26 Michael Jansen wrote: > Hi > > Because of some qt problem i had to deactivate Nepomuk. > > It is a optional dependency in kdebase/runtime. Specifying -DWITH_Nepomuk=0 > worked (I have nepomuk compiled. onto2vocab... just crashes on execution). > > It is only on the first glimpse an optional dependence in kdepim. Therefore > compiling kdepim with -DWITH_Nepomuk fails because it still tries to use > Nepomuk. > > The first problem is that kdepim tries to find Nepomuk twice: > > kdepim/CMakeLists.txt: > > macro_optional_find_package(Soprano) > > > > macro_log_feature(Soprano_FOUND "Soprano" "Semantic Desktop Storing" > > "http://soprano.sourceforge.net"; FALSE "" "Soprano is needed for Nepomuk") > > > macro_optional_find_package(Nepomuk) > > > > macro_log_feature(Nepomuk_FOUND "Nepomuk" "The Nepomuk libraries" > > "http://www.kde.org"; FALSE "" "Nepomuk extends the search and tagging > functionalities in KMail and Akonadi") > > kdepim/akonadi/CMakeLists.txt: > > find_package(Soprano) > > macro_log_feature(Soprano_FOUND "Soprano" "Semantic Desktop Storing" > > "http://soprano.sourceforge.net"; FALSE "" "Soprano is needed for Nepomuk") > > > find_package(Nepomuk) > > macro_log_feature(Nepomuk_FOUND "Nepomuk" "The Nepomuk libraries" > > "http://www.kde.org"; FALSE "" "Nepomuk extends the search and tagging > functionalities in KMail and Akonadi") > > Which essentially means it's not optional in the sense i can't disable it > when i have it installed. > > When fixing that problem locally i encountered two other problems. > > First a kdepim developer objecting to my change because Nepomuk already is > optional in his opinion. I think we have a problem with people > understanding the use case for macro_optional_find_package . > > Second It still doesn't compile because akonadiconsole these days has a ui > file referencing some Nepomuk Widget. > > Which leads me to the main point of this mail. We need additional automatic > builds imho. Builds that make sure all these optional packages are really > optional. Developers (me included) tend to compile only the everything > enabled version. Is there any chance on getting these?
From my experience with maintaining the automatic builds on dashboard.akonadi-project.org, the problem is the considerable time needed to maintain those "automatic" builds. I have to intervene manually more or less every other day because something broke/hangs/flooded the disk/whatever. > All this is unrelated to the question if nepomuk should be hard dependency > for kdepim. tmcguire said it doesn't really work without anymore. Posts to > mailing lists would cease to work if nepomuk is disabled. Which btw. means > this email should not reach the mailing list :-) you are mixing up mailinglists and distribution lists ;-) regards Volker
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