Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
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> > > "Assuming you have all the required libraries you then do the standard
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install"
> > >
> > > but the knetworkmanager directory does not have a configure script -
> > > Presumably there is some other command I need to run first.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >   
> > >       
> > I have company it seems, thats my situation also, the make tools are all
> > on the missing list.
> >     
>
> That is not the "fault" of anyone - about the knetworkmanager, it has to
> do with the build system for KDE - I don't remember the specifics, but
> doing an svn checkout of KDE to build from it is not as easy as some
> places, you need to check out from what I recall, some admin directory,
> as well as somewhere else (base I believe is what I was told) and then
> you checkout Knetworkmanager into that directory, and you run something
> along the lines of admin/somescript (I don't run a KDE machine full
> time, and haven't looked into getting KNetworkManager running because of
> this) - A couple of weeks back I had heard it was prepping for a release
>  real soon now(tm) - but I am not, and don't know the maintainer, so I
> can't really speak on that.
>
> I do know that KDE has an SVN howto, but again, I've not researched it
> lately as I have become more of a fan of Gnome and it's simplicity.
>
> I just googled and it took me a little bit to find the info (actually
> found it and am adapting it somewhat, so my instructions MAY NOT work
> (probably don't, I am just guestimating)
>
> you want to make a random directory somewhere - for me, I keep all repos
> that I check out in ~/repos so
>
> mkcd ~/repos/knetworkmanager (please note, you will need to do mkdir,
> mkcd is a little zsh magic I have going here that makes a directory and
> then cd's into it for me)
>
> then you need to
>
> svn co the knetworkmanager stuff
>
> cd into the knetworkmanager
>
> svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common/admin
>
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This appeared to work, BUT:
> make -f Makefile.cvs
>
>   
Makefile.cvs does not exist in the tree.  Should it?
>  ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> (obviously, a rough guestimation, someone more familiar with KDE and
> building things from their svn, please feel free to correct me :) )
>
> Hope that was helpful and not too far off topic for the list
> Steev
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Cheers, Gene