Installation of kdesvn

This page describes installation from source. For installation of binary packages consult documentation for your system.

Requirements

• At least kde 3.4 and not higher then 3.5.x for kdesvn 1.0.x, kde 4.1 for kdesvn 1.2.x or newer. Kde 4.0.x is NOT supported.
• subversion >= 1.2. Earlier version are not longer supported.
• cmake 2.4 (building from source)
• apr-devel, kdelibs-devel, subversion-devel and qt-devel (including uic tool) when building from source.

SuSE 9.3

SuSE 9.3 may find required stuff in Apache project ftp for SuSE.

RedHat Enterprise / CentOS 4/5

Try out kde-redhat and Rpmforge RPMs for kde 3.5 and subversion 1.4 for both systems.

I don't know why but RHEL/CentOS comes without cmake, so keep care installing it. You may find it for centos 5 on atrpms site. With this deps I had build packages for CentOS - them should work for RHEL, too.

I don't know if there is kde 4.1.x for CentOS or RHEL so I only tested it with kde 3.5 and kdesvn 1.0.x.

Build instructions

Note for failed linking
=======================
Seems that on some systems linking fails due missing references. You may
solve it with
. /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
export QTLIB=${QTDIR}/lib QTINC=${QTDIR}/include
before running cmake.
On some systems cmake doesn't detect that it is a threaded qt-version. So you should
do
export CXXFLAGS="-DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT"
before running cmake.
(Or give it as parameter to cmake with -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT")
Prepare install
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You require at least cmake 2.4, kde 4.2 and subversion 1.4. In source-tree-build are mostly unwanted, so
make a subdir called "kdesvn-build" and change to it.
Basic installation
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Change to your builddirectory and call cmake with the path to kdesvn. E.g.,
when your build-folder is "kdesvn-build" within source-tree, so change to it
and type "cmake ../".
Now your system get checked if it is able compiling kdesvn and cmake generates
the Makefiles.
Important parameters to cmake:
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<buildtype>
<buildtype> may current one of "Debug", "Release", "ReleaseWithDebInfo"
or "MINSIZEREL"
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix>
Default to "/usr/local"
-DSUBVERSION_INSTALL_PATH=<subversionlib-install-prefix>
Where is subversion-lib installed. Default check in /usr and /usr/local
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=<some extra flags>
Extra flags for the c++ compiler for your system required.
-DLIB_SUFFIX=<suffix>
Mostly for 64bit systems, there suffix may be 64 so libs will installed
in /usr/lib64 and not /usr/lib for instance.
After calling cmake just type
    make
and build begins. When more output is wanted call
   make VERBOSE=1
After make type "make install" and install begins.
You may install to a temporary-root with
    make install DESTDIR=<temproot>
If you want to uninstall kdesvn again type "make uninstall" from within the
build directory.
Extra cflags and linker flags
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If you require extra flags for compiler and linker you may give them via environment variables
  "CXXFLAGS" (c++ compiler)
  "LDFLAGS" (for linker)
  "CFLAGS"  (for c-compiler, not needed in kdesvn build)
eg., it may usefull on 64bit systems "-m64" to CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS.