KDevelop - KDevTrollProject Problem
After updating kde to 3.5.6 and kdevelop to 3.4.0_1 ( around 15.03.2007 ) kdevelop failed to open qmake based projects. The error was “Error creating project management plugin KDevTrollProject”.
Update
On 23.03.2007 a fix has been committed to the kdevelop port so if you encounter this problem it’s better to update the ports tree and recompile kdevelop.
Finding why
It took me a few houers to find out that the problem was an undefined reference to a symbol in /usr/local/lib/libkdevqmakeparser.so. The symbol was QMake::Lexer. Grepping to kdevelop sources i found that the libkdevqmakeparser is build in buildtools/lib/parsers/qmake. There i found that qmake_lex.cpp was not compiled and linked to the library.
Quick Fix
Below are the command lines to build qmake_lex.cpp and relink libkdevqmakeparser.so
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#cd /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop
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#make extract patch configure
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#cd work/kdevelop-3.4.0/buildtools/lib/parsers/qmake
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#fetch http://www.erata.net/wp-content/uploads/File/fix_lex.sh
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#cat fix_lex.sh ( just to make sure i haven’t hidden anything in that file
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#sh fix_lex.sh
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#cp .libs/libkdevqmakeparser.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
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Conclusion
I somehow have the impression that I’m the only one having this problem since i haven’t seen any reports on the mailing lists. It may be some bad combination of autotools/libtools. If I’m the only one having this problem then it’s not worth investing more time in a proper fix. If other users will report this problem then probably a patch to add the qmake_lex.cpp file to the Makefile with appropriate rules may be needed. My experience with autotools and handwritten Makefiles is close to zero (and i intend to keep it that way) but i guess the kde folks will have no problem fixing this once the problem i known.
If someone else experiences this problem please leave a comment or a post a message on the freebsd mailing list
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I’ve got the same problem, will try to fix it now. Thanks.
A fix has been committed to the kdevelop port. Upgrade to the latest version to fix the problem.
I have this problem as well… Will try your fix.