kdesvn-build

Builds KDE from its Subversion source repository. Well, that and a *LOT* more...

It builds qt-copy, easily supports being run from cron, allows module-specific options such as configure flags, logs everything, and generally makes it as easy as possible to manage a bleeding edge KDE installation.

kdesvn-build supports quick checkouts using the daily KDE-generated Subversion checkout snapshots. When available, it can reduce your checkout time and reduce the strain on the svn.kde.org servers.

kdesvn-build by default will install things into a ~/kde directory, but it supports using your system KDE if you just want to install e.g. an application from Extragear.

It's incredibly featureful, although I've tried hard to setup sane default options so that you don't have to worry about twiddling the knobs.

kdesvn-build supports both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4. See the "use-stable-kde" option in the included kdesvn-buildrc-sample for more information.

Basically, using use-stable-kde makes kdesvn-build prefer the 3.5 version of a module to any trunk version. This saves you from having to add a lot of 'branch' options.

v1.6.2 fixes the sample configuration to build phonon after kdesupport (and some other tweaks) and reduces the number of set_option() warnings in certain unusual (but allowed) situations.

The full changelog is available with the tarball and at http://kdesvn-build.kde.org/releases/kdesvn-build-1.6.1.php