I'm trying to understand the makefile of kword, but there is one thing I can't seem to find anywhere. On the dependency line " all:" I see a "all-recursive"(besides others like docs-am), but where is this dependency line? I looked at all the included makefiles and can't seem to find it. I also did a grep on "all-recursive" in the whole source directory..no luck.

I gather from another thread you are building and trying out KOffice1.6, this is not a version that many people compile or use anymore. If you are not succeeding on your own I suggest you go with version 2.x which has build instructions on the wikis and a lot of people successfully build that. This means you will have a better success on getting help if you hit a problem you can't solve yourself.

zander,

thank you for replying. I've already compiled kword/koffice 2.0 (succesfully) and the same with kword/koffice 1.6.3 ( that comes with OpenSuse 11.1). I want to understand the build procedure of kword hence my question. I think that my question applies to both versions and I hope one of you experts can help me understand the build procedure. I can't use koffice 2.0 for now, since I developing a application for OpenSuse 11.1 and I want to use the libs that are already available on the system.

OpenSuse ships KOffice2 in the experimental repositories.

Yep, you're right but I still want to understand the all-recursive dependency line, as I mentioned it's in both (2.0 & 1.6.3) the Makefiles. Although 2.0 is there I will have to develop on 1.6.3.

again thank you for your help.

The thing is that those Makefile are generated by cmake in 2.x (and automake in 1.x), and while in the KOffice team, we have knowledge to modify and maintain the CMakeLists.txt used by cmake, we don't have any knowledge on the output Makefile generated by cmake. Best would be to look at cmake to see what it does.