In response to bug report "Autobracket plugin does not replicate all the functionality of the built in function", a new (replacement) plugin was attached in that thread that addresses the issue.

I am having difficulty successfully building and installing that plugin, and finding the newly built,installed plugin within Kate:: Settings > Configure Kate > Extensions.

With bracesane_build as a sister directory to bracesane (the source), I am configuring with:

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bracesane_build# cmake ../bracesane -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`

The configuration process reports C/CXX compiler version GNU 4.7.2, and no errors (other than rightly failing the _OFFT_IS_64BIT test and a few 'not found's: Q_WS_WIN, Q_WS_QWS, Q_WS_MAC, pthread_create).

The make process also appears to complete with no errors:

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# Scanning dependencies of target ktexteditor_bracesane_automoc
# Generating bracesane_config.moc
# Generating bracesane.moc
# [  0%] Built target ktexteditor_bracesane_automoc
# Scanning dependencies of target ktexteditor_bracesane
# [ 33%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ktexteditor_bracesane.dir/ktexteditor_bracesane_automoc.o
# [ 66%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ktexteditor_bracesane.dir/bracesane.o
# [100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ktexteditor_bracesane.dir/bracesane_config.o
# Linking CXX shared module lib/ktexteditor_bracesane.so
# [100%] Built target ktexteditor_bracesane


However, make install does not install the actual application which should go into /usr/share/apps/ktexteditor_bracesane/ as intimated in this comment:

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# [  0%] Built target ktexteditor_bracesane_automoc
# [100%] Built target ktexteditor_bracesane
# Install the project...
# -- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
# -- Installing: /usr/lib/kde4/ktexteditor_bracesane.so
# -- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/services/ktexteditor_bracesane.desktop
# -- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/services/ktexteditor_bracesane_config.desktop


(I am wondering about that "RelWithDebInfo" as I am not using a Debian-based system. I am using a Fedora-based system, Mageia 3, with KDE v4.10.5)

And, launching Kate gives me no new extension to choose from.

The content of CMakeLists.txt in ../bracesane (the source) is:

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find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
include (KDE4Defaults)
include_directories(${KDE4_INCLUDES})

kde4_add_plugin(ktexteditor_bracesane bracesane.cpp bracesane_config.cpp)
# kde4_add_plugin(ktexteditor_bracesane bracesane.cpp)

target_link_libraries(ktexteditor_bracesane ${KDE4_KDECORE_LIBS} ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} ktexteditor)

install(TARGETS ktexteditor_bracesane DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})

install(FILES ktexteditor_bracesane.desktop ktexteditor_bracesane_config.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})
# install(FILES ktexteditor_bracesane.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})


#install(FILES bracesaneui.rc DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/ktexteditor_bracesane)


Is this content missing something? Or is the problem perhaps something else that I am clueless about?

I appreciate any help on this as I really miss the lost functionality of the current autobrace extension.

Thank you.

T. Lee

This all looks fine. Did you run kbuildsycoca after finishing the installation? Did you look under "Extension" (not "Plugins") for the new plugin?

"RelWithDebInfo" expands to "ReleaseWithDebugInfo".

Greetings,
Sven

Thanks Sven!

I appreciate you setting me straight about "RelWithDebInfo".

I did not find kbuildsycoca on my system. A bit of searching and querying package provides revealed that it is kbuildsycoca4. After running that, the extension showed up in Kate, and, much more importantly, it works

Thanks again, Sven.

T.Lee