Hi,
I know this isn't a KStars forum but I think I'll be more likely to find people here who compile KStars for their platform than elsewhere. I have tried compiling the KStars 2.9.6 source from the source tarball that can be downloaded from
download.kde.org/stable/kstars/kstars-2.9.6.tar.xz.mirrorlist
on Raspbian Stretch, Debian Stretch and Debian Buster (Testing) and I almost always run into the same problem on all of these platforms. Even though I got it working once on Debian Stretch I also managed to break it again as soon as I compiled INDI and then tried to compile KStars again.
The reason I am doing this is because I have installed a WittyPi2 RTC board, see
www.uugear.com/product/wittypi2/
which doesn't work with Ubuntu Mate but it does with Raspbian.
When I follow the KStars compilation instructions from
techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/Building_KStars_KF5
I get this error from cmake:
CMake Error at icons/CMakeLists.txt:1 (ecm_install_icons):
Unknown CMake command "ecm_install_icons".
Since I got it working once (I think I remember it was when I used the Debian Stretch network install CD and also installed the default Desktop) I think this is due to a missing dependency, i.e. a Debian package that needs to be installed, but I don't know which one. Would anyone know which one???
Cheers, Wouter