2.4. Building specific modules

Rather than building every module all the time, you may only want to build a single module, or other small subset. Rather than editing your configuration file, you can simply pass the names of modules or module sets to build to the command line.

Example output of a kdesrc-build specific module build

% kdesrc-build --include-dependencies dolphin
Updating kde-build-metadata (to branch master)
Updating sysadmin-repo-metadata (to branch master)

Building extra-cmake-modules from frameworks-set (1/79)
        Updating extra-cmake-modules (to branch master)
        No changes to extra-cmake-modules source, proceeding to build.
        Running cmake...
        Compiling... succeeded (after 0 seconds)
        Installing.. succeeded (after 0 seconds)

Building phonon from phonon (2/79)
        Updating phonon (to branch master)
        No changes to phonon source, proceeding to build.
        Compiling... succeeded (after 0 seconds)
        Installing.. succeeded (after 0 seconds)

Building attica from frameworks-set (3/79)
        Updating attica (to branch master)
        No changes to attica source, proceeding to build.
        Compiling... succeeded (after 0 seconds)
        Installing.. succeeded (after 0 seconds)

        ...

Building dolphin from base-apps (79/79)
        Updating dolphin (to branch master)
        No changes to dolphin source, proceeding to build.
        Compiling... succeeded (after 0 seconds)
        Installing.. succeeded (after 0 seconds)

<<<  PACKAGES SUCCESSFULLY BUILT  >>>
Built 79 modules

Your logs are saved in /home/kde-src/kdesrc/log/2018-01-20-07

In this case, although only the <dolphin> application was specified, the --include-dependencies flag caused kdesrc-build to include the dependencies listed for <dolphin> (by setting the include-dependencies option).

Note

The dependency resolution worked in this case only because <dolphin> happened to be specified in a kde-projects-based module set (in this example, named base-apps). See the section called Special Support for KDE module sets.