KDE4: modicum of success on OpenBSD

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 19 Març 2007, Marc Espie va escriure:
> I just wanted to report that I have the 3.80.3 snapshot up and running
> on OpenBSD mostly. There are quite a few issues yet. No idea which ones
> are OpenBSD specific, and which ones are kde in general.
>
> So far, compiled libs, pimlibs, base. Going through games.
> edu compilation borked on openbabel (which appears to be installed and
> detected correctly ?)
>
> So far, my largest problem isn't kde per se, but cmake. Cmake has no
> code to handle OpenBSD shared libraries correctly, and it's obviously
> going to be fun (we still have old style libname.so.MAJOR.MINOR names,
> and we frown on libname.so). Just making the library name be
> libname.so.MAJOR.MINOR does NOT fly, as that name is not readily accessible
> from outside the build directory, so major issues for dependencies... I'll
> probably end up `faking' the name, having some link to a libname.library
> just used for dependencies, since -lname is going to find
> libname.so.MAJOR.MINOR just fine then.

cmake developers seem quite open to improve their tool, have you tried 
contacting them?

Albert

>
> Oh well.
>
> I have a few (very few) OpenBSD-specific patches so far... once they're
> a bit cleaner, I'll merge what I can. (oh, and I needed to fix some
> blocking io in qt4, patch sent to the trolls).
>
> Is kcontrol supposed to work in the 3.80.3 snapshot ? and is the helpcenter
> supposed to be functional ? kcontrol shows up as empty here (no modules)
> and there is no real documentation in the khelpcenter.
>
> What's the way to make it compile without debug messages ?
> I found -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:String=Release, but things are still very
> verbose (and hence a bit slow). I'd really like to be able to get a feeling
> of KDE4 vs. KDE3...