Thanks all, I managed to compile kopete albeit I have used the Fedora's
packages. Now I modified the kopete api to generate a doxygen in order to
catch up with the code. I hope I come out with something soon.

Regards,
André Oriani

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Oleg Girko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Matt Rogers wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 06:35:53 André Oriani wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm having some trouble to starting to developing for kopete. I am a
> > > Fedora 8 user.  That distribution does not come with KDE4 yet (FC9
> will).
> > > Despite of that , they provide three packages ( and their respective
> > > devel packages) to code for KDE4 : kdebase4,kdelibs4 and kdepimlibs.
> That
> > > seems not be enough as it was pointed out by cmake. Has someone set up
> > > Fedora 8 and could give some tips?
> [skipped]
> >
> > I run Fedora 8. You won't want to use Fedora's packages, as tempting as
> it
> > is. Why? Because developing Kopete in trunk against a 4.0.x will cause
> you
> > problems and you will end up having to follow SVN trunk anyways. It's
> not
> > because Fedora's packages are bad. :)
> [skipped]
>
> However, I still use KDE4.0 environment from Fedora 8 to build Kopete, and
> it
> works. Actually, Kopete is the only program from kdenetwork which still
> builds against KDE4.0 libraries. And it can change at any moment, because
> nobody guarantees that no features from KDE4.1 absent in KDE4.0 will be
> used
> in nearby future.
>
> First, check out kdenetwork package from Subversion repository.
> Then create build directory. Run cmake.
>
> I use the following script to invoke cmake:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/kde"
>
> QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt4 \
> PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/bin:$PATH \
> cmake \
>        -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 \
>        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
>        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$INSTALL_PREFIX" \
>        -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR="$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib64" \
>        "$@"
>
> This will build files installable to your "$HOME/kde" subdirectory.
> (Please note that I have 64-bit Linux install.)
>
> The cmake can complain that some crucial packages are missing. Install all
> necessary RPM packages (don't forget that the development package names
> usually have "-devel" suffix, like "soprano-devel"). The best way to
> install
> missing packages is yum.
>
> After all necessary packages installed, cmake will complain about just 2
> optional packages missing: Decibel and Plasma. This means that you're
> ready
> to build Kopete.
>
> Just run the following command: "make -C kopete install"
> Don't try to build other programs from kdenetwork. They will fail.
>
> -- Oleg Girko, http://www.infoserver.ru/~ol/<http://www.infoserver.ru/%7Eol/>
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