From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 26 13:50:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from heimdall.piqnet.org (adsl-63-197-64-194.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.197.64.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7821F37B541 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.piqnet.org (adsl-63-197-64-195.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.197.64.195]) by heimdall.piqnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15477; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.piqnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA86111; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) X-Authentication-Warning: detlev.piqnet.org: joelh set sender to joelh@gnu.org using -f To: Will Andrews Cc: bwoods2@uswest.net, Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: kdelibs port broken? References: <86k8jssx5o.fsf@detlev.piqnet.org> <20000225195718.A17742@shadow.blackdawn.com> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 26 Feb 2000 13:51:47 -0800 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:57:18 -0500" Message-ID: <86n1onfx8s.fsf@detlev.piqnet.org> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Not with the port. I was installing Qt to /usr/local/qt, and the port >> was putting the libs in a non-standard place where KDE couldn't find >> them. :-C I built Qt 1.45 by hand, installed it, set QTDIR, and >> everything compiled fine. I haven't done much testing on it yet (only >> ran kdehelp a couple of times), but nothing obvious. > As far as I can tell, the KDE ports find Qt just fine. KDE insists on > putting everything under the same dir, as does Qt. This violates our > hierarchy (see hier(7) manpage), so we had to make some mods to the > configurations for Qt and KDE ports. It's not that difficult. > If you're gonna use a port, use ports for its dependencies too. You'd be > stupid not to use the ports whenever you can. No one has ever provided > me a convincing reason why this is not true. It appears that you do not care to hear my reasons, so I won't bother. If I have reasons that I want Qt and KDE in their own directories, I will do so. I would rather apps that expect Qt and KDE to be set up the same as they are on other OS's to work, than to require apps to be quirkified for FreeBSD's heir. You may not agree with my decision, and I'm not asking you to. But if bwoods has the same preference that I do, I'll gladly tell him how to implement them, and would appreciate not being told I'm stupid in the process. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message