Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:42:40 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: jerry@seibercom.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to build kde-workspace Message-ID: <20140301184240.6d448e33@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <017401cf3539$97c6cd30$c7546790$@seibercom.net> References: <00b801cf349b$a3801850$ea8048f0$@seibercom.net> <20140301000529.6a50fdec@X220.alogt.com> <011501cf34b2$ad71c090$085541b0$@seibercom.net> <20140301083551.29b44368@X220.alogt.com> <017401cf3539$97c6cd30$c7546790$@seibercom.net>
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Hi, On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 05:32:48 -0500 "Jerry" <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > > On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:36 PM Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:27:02 -0500 > > "Jerry" <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Due to this problem, I am halfway through updating KDE4. > > > > > Unfortunately, now I cannot even start KDE, so I have a > > > > > serious problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > you can avoid this problem in the future by using a tool like > > > > portupgrade > > > and > > > > by installing simple window manager like blackbox. > > > > > > > > Even if your KDE would be gone, you still would be able to use > > > > X. > > > > > > I used "portmaster" although I usually use "portupgrade". Building > > > manually though does not fix the problem. > > > > > I know. Just stay with portupgrade for the future. Always create > > packages > as > > a backup. So, you can always go back to the old version, no matter > > what happens. > > > > I would suggest that you try an older revision now. I was able to > > build > KDE > > with revision 342933. There should be newer revisions with which it > > still > will > > work. > > I have discovered that this is a known problem. There are at least two > solutions. > > 1) Set "GLES=off: OpenGL ES 2.0 support in kwin and kinfocenter" in > the "/x11/kde4-workspace" port. > > 2) Run: "pkg remove -f libglesv2-9.1.7" before building the port. > > Evidently this problem does not surface on a fresh installation of > KDE4, It would have been nice if there had been a notation in the > UPDATING log that this condition existed. > this is interesting. I have KDE always installed because I use some of its programs but not KDE itself. As such, I have to upgrade it all the while. So, I am just lucky that either GLES is off by chance or something else helped me. Yes, a note in UPDATING would be needed in cases like this. Erich
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