TechBase describes different methods to build KDE.

• kdesrc-build:
  http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... esvn-build
• kdebuild (and accompanying scripts, kdecmake, kdemake, ...):
  http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... nvironment
• build-tool:
  http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... build-tool
• "Plain" CMake using the configurations suggested by linuxfromscratch:
  http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... ratch_Book
  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... space.html

My questions are: are all of these methods equivalent? Which one is the most omnicomprehensive? Is any of the methods outdated?

kdesrc-build is probably the most modern and most widely used approach right now. I personally build by hand.

Whatever you do, you will end up with the same result, so choose what suits your workflow best. Building by hand in the beginning helps getting familiar with how things actually work, so that might be helpful.

Greetings,
Sven

All of these tools are ultimately different methods to accomplish the same goal - and all build KDE using the same underlying base mechanism - CMake. If you are going to build more than a few parts of KDE I would definitely recommend the kdesrc-build method.

Thanks for the answers, I am now reading the kdesrc-build documentation.

At the moment I am building kde-workspace, which depends also on other packages, so kdesrc-build helps as it will automatize the process of updating/building them all.