[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: kdelibs broken on non-Linux Unixes

Lukáš Tinkl ltinkl at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 15:25:59 CET 2010


Dne Po 22. listopadu 2010 19:40:07 jste napsal(a): > On Saturday 13 November 
2010 03:24:35 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > (Please keep me CC'ed as I'm not subscribed).
> > 
> > After the commits which have introduced the linux_dvd_rw_utils.*
> > files, kdelibs does not compile on !Linux Unixes anymore -- I couldn't
> > build it here on FreeBSD, and CDash reports it doesn't build on
> > OpenSolaris either.
> 
> And it also now comes with a licensing issue as this file is GPLv2+, so not
> complying to the kdelibs licensing... It'll have to go away in any cases.
> 
> > Simply putting the linux_dvd_rw_utils #includes inside an #ifdef
> > Q_OS_LINUX does not solve the problem, as some functions are expected
> > by the code. I didn't try to dig further, as this is not an area I'm
> > very knowledgeable of.
> 
> Should be a handful of methods depending on it though, you could have
> ifdefed in those. At that point, I'd prefer if your CMakeLists.txt
> modifications got reverted and linux_dvd_rw_utils.* just removed.
> 
> Regards.

I'll revert the offending files if I can't resolve the licensing issue; still 
haven't heard back from its author :/

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Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
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