Hacking KDE

[choward]

I want to install the KDE CVS ebuilds so that I can do some hacking on KDE. They seem to work fine, but I can't figure out how to make the source easily accessible afterwards. I've read Dan Armak's page http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde-cvs.html about a hundred times and I still don't know how to:
1. Have the source installed as a subdir of /home/src
2. Make all files owned by user craig
3. Not get an ACCESS VIOLATION (without disabling sandbox, or maybe I'm supposed to disable it, I don't know)
4. Make a change to the local files, and have portage rebuild everything for me, _without_ updating from CVS.

I've tried browsing through cvs.eclass and playing with some settings, but I just can't seem to get things working properly. Help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.
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Craig Howard
4B Computer Science -- University of Waterloo

[konqueror]

(i may get flamed (??) for this)

if you purely want to hack the sources, there's no need to go after the ebuilds, especially if you have a problem, do you? just use the normal 'cvs' and of course access the kde cvs straight off.

check kde's own home page (http://developer.kde.org/source/index.html if you want a direct link) for the cvs access, and gentoo's own cvs doc for a good guide to cvs if you dont know cvs yet.

[choward]

[konqueror]

hm i think you'll have to take a look at the ebuild yourself, and figure your way out from there... there's a guide to making your own ebuilds that perhaps you should take a look at (see gentoo docs webpage).

i'm not too familiar with the kde-cvs ebuilds myself, but point is that the ebuild (or portage) system normally extracts, compiles, installs, and then cleans off the temp files (ie meaning the extracted source files). If you dont want portage to do that, you'll have to meddle with some "clean" setting somewhere (i forget; do a search for it or something)