Just a short cmake tip today...
You probably know that with "cmake -DSOME_VARIABLE=foo" you can give variables to cmake.
Now, sometimes, e.g. if the wrong version of a package has been found, e.g. a wrong Qt, you want to remove the wrong entries for Qt from the CMake cache again (because otherwise cmake doesn't search again).

There are at least three ways you probably already know:

• run cmake-gui (or make edit_cache) to open the "cache editor", i.e. the GUI for cmake
• the "Holzhammer" method: simply remove the complete cache or build directory and start again

Now finally yesterday I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on my notebook (this one).

Installation went very smooth, and it seems all the hardware components were recognized automatically, 3D graphics, even WLAN.

Only issue, it still seems modern networking (aka networkmanager) doesn't like me. Or I am too stupid.

So once again I tried to use networkmanager, from a KDE4 workspace (correct term ? I didn't look up...)

So, what happened.

Indeed, I've got good, no, very good news from Real Life ! :-)

About one month ago me and Antje married, so she is now Mrs. Neundorf :-)

Here's a photo of us two:


(made by our photographer from Fresh Fotostudio, which we can only recommend)

As you can see, we were quite happy (and still are).

Ok, this blog is not really KDE related (well, it makes the network installation of a KDE developer more convenient, so...), but anyway here we go.
Main purpose is to get the compatibility information out there, so others can find it.

So, I recently purchased a QNAP TS 109 Pro.

I'm just trying to compile Battle of Wesnoth (yes, for me gaming means compiling games... ;-) ).
I just built it with CMake, which first complained that it didn't find Lua 5.1. I checked, it really wasn't there. So I downloaded the sources for lua, make, make install, and now lua is in /usr/local/.
Then I run cmake again on Wesnoth and it happily finds Lua, so CMake now succeeds and I can build Wesnoth.

To have more fun, I'm trying right now the autotools build for Wesnoth:

I thought I share a few interesting links:
Gnome switches to git: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-March/msg00086.html

But not everybody does so, e.g. Python is switching right now to Mercurial: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087931.html

Eric Sinc has an interesting blog about DVCSs: http://www.ericsink.com/

I think we are getting one step closer to World Domination (TM) of Linux ! ;-)

How come that I think that ?
Have a look at that page (it's german):
http://www.dm-digifoto.de/gratis-download.html

DM Fotowelt application running on Slackware 12.1

There was this blog entry about the state of packaging for the Mac.
Containing "Then you think to yourself, if only those nice boys and girls in KDE-land had a native solution for installing their software,"

So, if you want a native solution, please join kde-buildsystem and let's see what needs to be done to get the packaging support you need for OSX. I don't have an OSX box here, so your help is needed.

Looking forward to hearing from you :-)
Alex

Since a few days Kitware is hosting a cdash dashboard for kdelibs. The ctest config file in kdelibs svn has been adapted accordingly.
So if you run now "make Experimental" in kdelibs the build and test results will be submitted to http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=kdelibs .
It would be very useful if we could get nightly builds for OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows, so we can make sure they stay compiling.