Actually, with the help of IRC channel I figured it out and running current Plasma version in Git repo. Since I was running kdesrc-build without dependencies, It was trying to install It's DBus and polkit files to system directory (/usr). As you can guess it wasn't possible without root rights. Compiling with --include-dependencies option solved the issue. I'm trying to understand the code and debug as much as I can. If I'm able to figure it out, I'll send a review request.
Thanks for the reply - Ongun 2017-01-30 23:13 GMT+03:00 Christoph Feck <cf...@kde.org>: > On 26.01.2017 01:42, Ongun Kanat wrote: > >> Well I started build process using command ./kdesrc-build --debug >> powerdevil . It looks like make install fails [1]. The log output is not >> detailed enough about what causes the fail. What is the way to increase >> log >> verbosity? I configured kdebuild-src to use ~/kde/usr as install directory >> [2]. I also don't know what packages to build. Entire frameworks or just >> some part of it? Are packages provided (Qt, KF5) by my distro (Arch) okay? >> If so, which ones are okay which ones are not? >> >> [1] https://paste.kde.org/p2pg8ynev >> [2] https://paste.kde.org/pvtid6est >> > > Some parts of powerdevil require interaction with system dbus. Either > install as root (using sudo), or configure your system dbus to look in some > additional local prefix and install it into that prefix. > > > 2017-01-26 3:15 GMT+03:00 Christoph Feck <cf...@kde.org>: >> >> On 26.01.2017 00:45, Ongun Kanat wrote: >>> >>> Though wanted to contribute (and had already been subscribed to this >>>> list), >>>> I couldn't have the spare time. Now I have a bit spare time and I would >>>> like to contribute KDE. I think I can start from a bug of powerdevil >>>> I've >>>> >>>> >>> Nice :) New contributors are always needed. >>> >>> reported [1]. Now I need some guidance about building powerdevil from >>> >>>> source since I got some errors at my first attempt to build it using >>>> >>>> >>> Which errors do you get? You can use paste.kde.org for longer error >>> messages. >>> >>> kdesrc-build as suggested here [2]. >>> >>>> >>>> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371915 >>>> [2] https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- Ongun Kanat Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Student
