KDE3 Solaris Linux

[Stephan Kulow]

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On Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 17:40, 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).
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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 don't think KDE stores the path to Qt. Perhaps the linker does with the 
RPATHs, but even that I doubt as we pass the rpaths and these are basicly
that found by configure. So can you be a bit more specific?

Greetings, Stephan
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