From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 5 2:12:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from sphinx.mythic-beasts.com (sphinx.mythic-beasts.com [195.82.107.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2AE37B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 02:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xelah (helo=localhost) by sphinx.mythic-beasts.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #8) id 13h74Q-0006Aj-00; Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:12:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:12:06 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Hayward X-Sender: xelah@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KDE2 fails to compile in strangest possible way In-Reply-To: <39DC3A5B.671E4BDD@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > All, > > Trying to compile KDE 4.1 on a somewhat recent 4.1-STABLE yields some > > strange results. All appears to be going well, until it begins > > compiling the file mcopidl.cc. The precise line is > > > > c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I,,.,,.dcop -I../../kdecore > > -I../../kdeui -I../../kssl -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt2 -I/usr/X11R6/include > > -I/usr/local/include -I./../mcop -I/usr/local/include > > -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -frtti -c mcopidl.cc > > > > It doesn't fail per se, but it's been working on this for at least 7 > > hours, with no sign of anything happening, though the activity lights > > are flashing. Top shows some activity involving this process, and it > > does seem to be using a large and oft-varied amount of memory (~50-70 > > MB). Just for reference the machine is a PPro 200 with 32 MB ram, 128MB > > swap, running a generic kernel. > > Try GNOME - it's now almost at par with KDE in usability/eye candiness (even > beats it in the later category IMO), while uses old plain C and not so heavily > CORBA-minded, so it is definitely the only choice for low-end machines. KDE doesn't use CORBA. There have also been a number of reports on the KDE lists that recent sources have got a lot better performance wise, including on low end machines. Just in case the blindingly obvious has been missed, have any of the people with compile problems tried removing the '-O'? It's what works for me, though I haven't tried it with a recent cvsup of KDE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message