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NAME
kdesrc-build - 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
0
Success
1
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.
5
A signal was received that killed kdesrc-build, but it attempted to perform normal closedown.
8
Unknown option was passed on the command line.
99
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 http://bugs.kde.org/. 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.
SEE ALSO
build-tool - A program by Michael Jansen which can build KDE software based on included recipes.
RESOURCES
Main web site: http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/ Documentation: http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/documentation/ Setup script: kdesrc-build-setup
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Michael Pyne.
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 <mpyne@kde.org> Author.