compiling one program, not all, from a source package

[Clay Weber]

You may wish to cross post to the kubuntu-devel list as they definitely have more knowledge on this, along with the error message you get. My meager packaging skills don't have a quick answer, but the dev team will. And perhaps your testing results might help others.

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------Original Message------
From: Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt>
To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:53:34 PM GMT+0300
Subject: compiling one program, not all, from a source package

I need to recompile kwin to test some changes made upstream, that
would solve problems with my card. But kwin, or kde-window-manager
package and its additions have one large source package:
kde-workspace, that includes plasma-dekstop, systemsettings, ksysguard
and a lot of other programs. I can compile that whole bunch of
packages, but I do not really need all those, and it takes ages on my
aging machine.

How do I compile just the kde-window-manager related packages?

I did this so far:

apt-get source kde-window-manager  ## it is smart and downloads the
correct source packages
cd kde-workspace*
## I applied the patch and then:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

- that is still running, and if it finally ends in problems i will be
pulling my hair out...

So, is there any way to specify, which packages to build?

Donatas

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