On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Spendrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As you all might know, we haven't had a release for a long time. > To change this, I want to get out the KDE 4.5.4 release in the coming > days (before christmas at least). > > I have prepared the buildserver to restart a new try to build the kde > 4.5.4 release every 6 hours (6am, 12am, 6pm, 12pm German Time). > > Currently I have added the following compilers: > mingw4, mingw-w32, msvc2008 and msvc2010. > > There will probably be quite a lot of errors while building KDE on those > different compilers, so I thought we could split the task to fix these > builds on this list here? > > How I think it could work: > - Those interested in it, would set up a build environment with their > preferred compiler dedicated to the release (I can give the settings of > the build server as hints as well). > > - The Server would run and fail on a certain package, you can see that > on the release dashboard > (http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/). > > - Somebody would step up and fix this error locally: > * You can create a patch with >> emerge --createpatch --target=4.5.4 kde-4.5/kdetoys > * The patch can be found under > %KDEROOT%\build\kde-4.5\PACKAGENAME-PACKAGEVERSION. > * You would add this patch to the emerge package under > emerge\portage\kde-4.5\kdetoys and also change the .py file by adding a > line like: > self.patchToApply['4.5.4'] = [('kdetoys-4.5.4-20101209.diff', 1)] > into the subinfo section. > > - After the patch has been applied, the buildserver would svn up his > emerge directories, retry the build with the now fixed package, succeed > and package & upload this package. > > - You would look for the next package to get fixed ;-). > > The advantage of this way is that we can distribute the work onto > multiple shoulders. > > If you have any comments about that, just send them.
This initiative is really nice. You can count me in, I have a msvc2010 build environment. Regards, Cristian _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
