man kdesrc-build (1): Downloads, builds and installs KDE software.

SYNOPSIS

kdesrc-build [OPTIONS...] [Module name | Module set name...]

DESCRIPTION

The kdesrc-build command is used in order to build KDE software directly from its source repositories. It can download from Subversion or Git repositories, interfaces with the KDE project database, and supports controlling which options are passed to make(1) and cmake(1). The operation of kdesrc-build is driven by a configuration file, typically ~/.kdesrc-buildrc.

The module name or module set name as given on the command line should be as those names were defined in the configuration file (either in a module definition or use-modules declaration, or in a module-set definition). In addition, it can be the name of a KDE module listed in the KDE project database (and you can precede the module name with + to force this).

kdesrc-build is designed to be able to be completely headless (however, see ENVIRONMENT), and so typically ignores its input completely. Command output is logged instead of being shown on the kdesrc-build output.

Modules are built one after the other. If a module fails to update then it is not built. kdesrc-build will not abort just because of a module failure, instead it will keep trying to update and build subsequent modules. By default, kdesrc-build will commence building a module as soon as the source code update is complete for that module, even if other updates are occurring concurrently.

At the end kdesrc-build will show which modules failed to build, and where the logs were kept for that build run.

OPTIONS

NOTE: Some options have short forms, but the kdesrc-build option parser does not support combining short options into one at this point. (E.g. running kdesrc-build -pv would not be the same as kdesrc-build --pretend --verbose).

-h, --help

: Shows a brief synopsis and frequently-used command line options.

-p, --pretend

: Operate in a "dry run" mode. No network accesses are made, no log files are created, no modules are built, and no other permanent changes to disk are made. One important exception is that if you try to build a module that comes from the KDE project database, and the database hasn't been downloaded yet, the database will be downloaded since the pretend-mode output may change significantly based on the database results.

--install

: Skips the update and build phase and immediately attempts to install the modules given.

--uninstall

: Skips the update and build phase and immediately attempts to uninstall the modules given. NOTE: This is only supported for buildsystems that supports the make uninstall command (e.g. KDE CMake-based).

--no-src

: Skips the source update phase. Other phases are included as normal. --no-svn is a deprecated alias for this option and will be removed in a future release.

--no-install

: Skips the install phase from the build. Other phases are included as normal.

--no-build

: Skips the build phase for the build. Internally the install phase depends on the build phase completing so this is effectively equivalent to --src-only, but the semantics may change in the future (e.g. when test suites are moved into their own phase).

--no-tests

: Disables running the test suite for CMake-based modules. To be fully effective this requires re-running CMake, which can be forced by using the --reconfigure or --refresh-build options.

--src-only

: Only performs the source update phase, does not build or install. --svn-only is a deprecated alias for this option and will be removed in a future release.

--build-only

: Forces the build process to be performed without updating source code first. In addition, installation is not performed. (Testing is still performed if applicable, but this will change in a future release)

--refresh-build

: Removes the build directory for a module before the build phase starts. This has the desired side effect of forcing kdesrc-build to re-configure the module and build it from a "pristine" state with no existing temporary or intermediate output files. Use this option if you have problems getting a module to build but realize it will take longer (possibly much longer) for the build to complete as a result. When in doubt use this option for the entire kdesrc-build run.

--reconfigure

: Force CMake to be re-run, but without deleting the build directory. Usually you actually want --refresh-build, but if you are 100% sure your change to cmake-options will not invalidate your current intermediate output then this can save some time.

--build-system-only

: Interrupts the build process for each module built: The build process consists of normal setup up to and including running cmake or configure (as appropriate), but make is not run and no installation is attempted. This is mostly only useful to get things like configure --help and cmake-gui to work. Normally you want --reconfigure or --refresh-build.

--resume-from=foo

: Use this option to skip module processing until the module foo is encountered. foo and all subsequent modules will be processed normally as if they had been specified on the command line. If you use this option because of a build failure you may want to consider using --no-src in addition to skip the resultant source update phase.

--resume-after=foo

: This is just like --resume-from, except that the module foo is not included in the list of modules to consider. You might use this if you've manually built/installed foo after fixing the build and just want to resume from there.

--ignore-modules

: Forces ALL modules that follow this option to be excluded from consideration by kdesrc-build. This might be useful if you know you want to process all modules except for specific exceptions.

--rc-file=foo

: Use the given file, foo, for the configuration instead of ~/.kdesrc-buildrc or ./kdesrc-buildrc. The file can be empty, but must exist.

--prefix=foo

: Overrides the kdedir setting to be foo for this run. In addition, implies --reconfigure. It does not actually perform the action you would think it does (overriding the prefix option to change where modules are installed), although by default modules are installed to the kdedir setting if prefix is not set.

--nice=foo

: Changes the CPU priority given to kdesrc-build (and all processes used by kdesrc-build e.g. make(1)). foo should be an integer number between -20 and 19. Positive values are "nicer" to the rest of the system (i.e. lower priority).
Note that the possible priorities available on your system may be different than listed here, see nice(2) for more information. Note also that this only changes CPU priority, often you want to change I/O priority on systems where that is supported. There is no command-line option for I/O priority adjustment, but there is a configuration file option: use-idle-io-priority (although like all options, there is a generic way to set this from the command line).

--run=foo

: Runs the program named by foo using kdesrc-build's normal build environment. All command line arguments present after this option are passed to foo as it is run.

--color

: Enables "colorful output". (Enabled by default).

--no-color

: Disables "colorful output". This can be made permanent by setting the colorful-output option to false (or 0) in your configuration file.

--async

: Have kdesrc-build start the build process for a module as soon as the source code has finished downloading. Without this option kdesrc-build performs all source updates at once and only then starts with the build process. This option is enabled by default.

--no-async

: Disables asynchronous building of modules. See --async for a more detailed description. Note that kdesrc-build's output will be slightly different in this mode.

-v, --verbose

: Increases the level of verbosity of kdesrc-build output (which is already fairly verbose!)

-q, --quiet

: Makes kdesrc-build less noisy. Only important messages are shown.

--really-quiet

: Makes kdesrc-build even less noisy. Only warnings/errors are shown.

--debug

: This will fill your terminal with descriptions and debugging output, usually unintelligible, describing what kdesrc-build is doing (and thinks it should be doing). The flag is included since the output may sometimes prove useful for debugging.

--force-build

: Normally when kdesrc-build notices that there is no source update on a module which was previously successfully installed, it does not attempt to build or install that module. You can pass this flag to disable that behavior and always run make.

--no-snapshots

: Normally kdesrc-build supports using source repository tarball snapshots to reduce load on KDE infrastructure for git clones for some KDE modules. Passing this option disables this feature.

--delete-my-patches

: This option must be passed to allow kdesrc-build to remove conflicting source directories. Currently even this only happens when trying to clone a git-based module if an existing source directory is present. Never specify this option unless it is suggested by kdesrc-build, and only if you don't mind the source directories that are referenced being deleted and re-cloned.

--foo=bar

: Any option not listed above is checked to see if it matches the list of possible configuration file options. If so, the configuration file option foo is temporarily set to bar for the duration of this run.

--module,foo=bar

: Like above, but option foo is only set to bar for the module module. This does not work for module sets yet, you must repeat this for each module you want to be affected. (Of course, you could simply edit your configuration file...)

EXIT STATUS

: Success

: Normally this means some part of the update, build or install process failed, but is also used for any abnormal program end not otherwise covered below.

: A signal was received that killed kdesrc-build, but it attempted to perform normal closedown.

: Unknown option was passed on the command line.

: An exception was raised that forced kdesrc-build to abort early.

ENVIRONMENT

HOME

: Used for tilde-expansion of file names, and is the default base for the source, build, and installation directories.

PATH

: This environment variable controls the default search path for executables. You can use the binpath configuration file option to add to this variable (e.g. for running from cron(8)).

LC_*

: Environment variables starting with LC_ control the locale used by kdesrc-build. Although kdesrc-build is still not localizable at this point, many of the commands it uses are. kdesrc-build normally sets LC_ALL=C for commands that its must examine the output of but you can manually do this as well. If setting LC_ALL=C fixes a kdesrc-build problem please submit a bug report.

SSH_AGENT_PID

: This environment variable is checked to see if ssh-agent(1) is running, but only if kdesrc-build determines that you are checking out a module that requires an SSH login (but you should know this as no module requires this by default).

KDESRC_BUILD_USE_TTY

: If set, this variable forces kdesrc-build not to close its input while executing system processes. Normally kdesrc-build closes stdin since the stdout and stderr for its child processes are redirected and therefore the user would never see an input prompt anyways.

KDESRC_BUILD_DUMP_CONTEXT

: If set, this variable prints out a description of its "build context" just after reading options and command line arguments and determining which modules to build. You pretty much never want to set this.

others

: Many programs are used by kdesrc-build in the course of its execution, including svn(1), git(1), make(1), and cmake(1). Each of these programs may have their own response to environment variables being set. kdesrc-build will pass environment variables that are set when it is run onto these processes. You can ensure certain environment variables (e.g. CC or CXX) are set by using the set-env configuration file option.

FILES

~/.kdesrc-buildrc - Default global configuration file.

./kdesrc-buildrc - If this file (note there is no leading period (.) this time) is found in the current directory when kdesrc-build is run, this file will be used for the configuration instead of ~/.kdesrc-buildrc.

~/.kdesrc-build-data - kdesrc-build uses this file to store persistent data (such as last CMake options used, last revision successfully installed, etc.). It can be safely deleted.

BUGS

See m[blue]http://bugs.kde.org/m[]. Be sure to search against the kdesrc-build product.

EXAMPLE

$ kdesrc-build

: Downloads, builds and installs all modules listed in the configuration file, in the order defined therein.

$ kdesrc-build --pretend

: Same as above, except no permanent actions are taken (specifically no log files are created, downloads performed, build processes run, etc.). EXCEPTION: If you are trying to build a module defined in the KDE project database, and the database has not been downloaded yet, kdesrc-build will download the database since this can significantly affect the final build order.

$ kdesrc-build --no-src --refresh-build kdebase

: Deletes the build directory for the kdebase module set (--refresh-build) and then starts the build process again without updating the source code in-between.

$ kdesrc-build --rc-file /dev/null --pretend

: Forces kdesrc-build to read an empty configuration file and simulate the resultant build process. This shows what would happen by default with no configuration file, without an error message about a missing configuration file.

$ kdesrc-build +kdebase/kde-baseapps

: Downloads, builds and installs the kde-baseapps module from the KDE project database. Since the module name is preceded by a + it is assumed to defined in the KDE project database even if this hasn't been specifically configured in the configuration file.
The kdebase/ portion forces kdesrc-build to ignore any kde-baseapps modules that are not children of the kdebase supermodule in the project database (although it is contrived for this example).

$ kdesrc-build --refresh-build --cmake-options="-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"

: Downloads, builds and installs all modules defined in the configuration file but overrides the cmake-options option to have the value given on the command line for this run only. Any further kdesrc-build runs will use the cmake-options given in the configuration file.

RESOURCES

Main web site: m[blue]http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/m[]

Documentation: m[blue]http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/documentation/m[]

Setup script: kdesrc-build-setup

COPYING

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

AUTHOR

Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

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