From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 10:54: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 10:54:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311E237B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.144]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id NAA21856; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:53:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id NAA12480; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:53:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:53:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: tim@iafrica.com.na Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE 2.0.1 refuses to compile. In-Reply-To: <3A41BFD2.958AC72D@polytechnic.edu.na> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Tim Priebe wrote: > > I have a friend on the KDE core team, and I hear that FreeBSD is not as > well supported at KDE any more, as their main FreeBSD developer has > finished high school, and started working, so does not have much time Anyone else find that really funny? :) I actually emailed the people at kde after I had a lot of trouble installing kde2 beta 4, asking if KDE2 final would compile fine on FreeBSD. They replied that "there are quite a few FreeBSD fans among the KDE developers so it should compile just fine on FreeBSD". Well when it came out it blew up with a lot of errors. A week and a half and 5 or 6 patches later it compiled fine, but only by building it piece by piece. So once again that is my recommendation. Make qt first with gif support if you want. Then try kdelibs then maybe kdebase, then network, support, etc, whatever hasn't been built by kdebase (I don't remember which it does off the top of my head). For some reason builing piece by piece works where trying the whole thing does not. But I also find it strange that I had no trouble building it once the last patch for kdemultimedia was commited, while others are still having trouble. I dunno. What I meant by crud, was little files hanging around that may get used in the build process when they shouldn't. For those still having trouble, try running make clean in the kde2 directory and trying again piece by piece. Maybe try package delete on the KDE2 components you still have and use script to save that output. Then go in and delete carefully by hand what didn't get deleted. Good news is that KDE2.01 did fix a number of the issues KDE2 had. That's all i've got, Tim > for KDE. He told me that that this young man was interested in having > some one pay him to work on KDE for FreeBSD. Mabey someone could contact > him to findout how much he needs to give up his job. I have never > communicated with him, but his email address is alex@kde.org. Uh, I don't consider KDE important enough to pay somebody's full time salary, but maybe others do. > Tim. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message