[kde-freebsd] [QUESTION] KDE3 and its own prefix

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:25:13 +0200
"David Naylor" <naylor.b.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I see that currently with the porting efforts of KDE4 that it gets
> stuck into its own prefix (i.e. ${PREFIX}/kde4).  As I understand KDE4
> is going to be the default (of KDE3/4) since it will (hopefully by
> 4.1) be a superset of KDE3.  Of course some kde3 programs will not
> make it to kde/qt 4 and will need to be supported.
> 
> I have looked through kdelibs and I think I have found a way to
> cleanly install kde3 into its own subprefix's: i.e
> ${PREFIX}/bin/kde3
> ${PREFIX}/sbin/kde3
> ${PREFIX}/lib/kde3
> ${PREFIX}/share/kde3
> 
> This involves adding the appropriate --datadir, --bindir and --libdirs
> to CONFIGURE_ARGS and hacking kstandarddir.cpp in kdelibs/kdecore to
> support the change.  With those changes it should handle 99% of all
> cases.

Should as in you think that's normal or as in 99% of you qt/kde apps
are working right?
 
 [ .. ]

> If the first part (about having kde3 in its own subprefix) is a
> desired outcome then I can create a patch and have it (mostly) tested
> by weekout??? [Just don't hold your breath]

There was a discussion about this AFAIR on this list in the last month
and AFAIR that's the idea. Please do test and post here both the patch
and your test details.


Tnx,

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