KDE3 Solaris Linux

[Thomas Zander]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:40:44PM +0200, Guenter Feldmann wrote:
> 	
> 
> Hi KDE developers
> 
> Fist of all I'm happy that I can report that I've sucessfully installed 
> KDE3.0.1 on our workstation pool consisting of Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and
> Linux x86 systems (~300 machines). 

Great!!

> The machines are confiured as follows:
> SPARC:
> 	Solaris8, X11R6.5 (/usr/local/X11), gcc3.1 (/usr/local/X11/kde)
> x86:
> 	Solaris8, XFree4.2 (/usr/local/X11), gcc3.1 (/usr/local/X11/kde)
> x86:
> 	ReadHat Linux 7.x, gcc3.1, KDE3.0.1 (/usr/local/X11/kde)
> 
> The /usr/local file system resides on a central server. Machines with small
> disks mount it via nfs, systems with big disks have a local copy (updated
> by rdist). All home directories reside on dedicated servers and get 
> automatically mounted on demand. In this environment users can freely
> switch between Linux an Solaris workstations and always use the same
> desktop (KDE). Since installation of KDE2 most users prefer KDE. Only
> few users continue with CDE.
> 
> Now the problems I encountered.
> 
> Compilation: 
> 	kdenetwork/kppp could not be compiled on Solaris x86. It isn't needed in 
> 	our envirionment anyway. It would be nice to have a configure flag for
> 	disabling it.

If you are compiling from source you can do a 'export DO_NOT_COMPILE=kppp'
before you configure.
If you could please communicate with the kppp authors on the exact problems
you had with compiling I think they would appriciate your feedback.
A simple bug-report with the relevant make output and an explenation would
seem the easiest solution. (don't forget to tell where you got the source and
which version of kde/kdelibs/kppp etc you use)


> Installation:
> 	When KDE seaks for the available applications it does not store their
> 	logical paths (which are the same on all our systems) but their physical
> 	paths. eg: the path to Qt 
> 		/usr/local/X11/qt
> 	gets stored as
> 		/usr/local/X11/qt_3.0.4			Solaris (small)
> 		/export/local/X11R6/qt_3.0.4		Solaris (big)
> 		/usr/X11R6/qt_3.0.4			Linux (big)
> 		/usr/local/X11/qt_3.0.4			Linux (small)
> 		...
> 
> 	To enable the users to switch between different system I had to emulate
> 	all posible physical pathes of the Linux systems by symbolc links on
> 	the Solaris systems an vice versa.

I am not quite sure where these paths are stored, and why this poses a problem..
While it is true that the binairy KDE contains some paths, I am wondering why
that is a problem. Surely the linux binairy can't be run on Solaris anyhow..

Groeten!
-- 
Thomas Zander                                           zander at planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be
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