I have a full kde-debian setup based fundementally on woody, with the potato versions of kde downloaded from kde.debian.net.
Utimately I would like to understand the source of KMail, so that I can make some changes to it to make it meet my requirements. Ideally what I would like to do is use kdevelop to set up a project with the source of kmail downloaded from the repository and firstly just read the code before building it, but ultimately to make changes to it which I think will achieve the functionality I want. However, with debian storing the libraries in different places, and (maybe) kmail latest CVS needing I am not sure where to start. I originally started with XFree 4.0.3 (initially by removing xfree using dselect)- but when I found there were two many dependancies on it I tried leaving 4.0.2 in place and just building the new source over the top. However kdm wouldn't start (much as other people have posted for other reasons). So I gave up that idea and went back to version 4.0.2 loaded from the woody .debs. Then I thought I would build QT from the source up. However, I wanted to keep an operational kde to work with, so just tryed to build a QT ourside of the current setup (in /usr/local). This failed, presumable because it was looking at the wrong libqt, because during creation of the examples it failed complaining that a number of routines were missing (can't remember them all, but one was something like FT_Init_Freetype which of coure should have been in libfreetype6-dev package which is installed). Having failed there, I ensured package libqt-dev wa installed and used cvsup to get latest development source - downloading modules kde-common, kdelibs and kdenetwork. If I try and build kdelibs it fails during the compilation ftp.cc in directory kio/ftp - complaining about a type mismatch in the qapplication.h header file. No idea what this is other than thinking I am getting some form of mismatch between the kdelibs-dev already installed If I try and build kdenetwork (with kdelibs failing to build but with kdelibs(3?)-dev installed) it fails saying it can't locate kdmcodec.h whilst trying to compile dict.cpp in the kdict subirectory of kdenetwork. Does this mean that the later versions of kmail need updated libraries? What I want to do is set up the right development environment to build this code up. But I just don't know where I have to break into the cycle so that a base level of stuff is standard .debs (with all the dependencies managed etc) and where I have to switch over to building from tarballs or source. Can I have some simple advice as to where to start this process. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com http://www.chandler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
