[KDE/Mac] Developing KDE on Mac

[Benjamin Reed]

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On 8/13/10 3:51 AM, Mike McQuaid wrote:
> Sorry to slightly derail this thread but is no-one else irritated at
the fact it's nearly impossible to get a working KDE on OSX build
running without using MacPorts or Fink? Until recently (and possibly
still is still the case) if you compile on 10.6, KDELibs will segfault
immediately on startup. MacPorts and Fink have a patch for this (and I
reluctantly added it to Homebrew) but this hasn't gone upstream (last
time I checked) so anyone compiling from source will find KDELibs hasn't
worked for a while.
>
> It would be good, at some point, to try and do a roll call of KDE on
Mac developers and see if we can't form more of a team effort to get the
platform a bit easier for people to get started with. I keep trying to
do stuff myself (and for Homebrew) but get frustrated and give up for a
while.
When I do a new major release of the fink packages, I go through all
my patches and push everything that isn't fink-specific upstream.

That said, the specific crash patch you're talking about was a bit of
a hack IIRC, and I really am not comfortable enough in C++ to push it
upstream.  Although, I guess if it's wrapped in #ifdef __APPLE__, it's
no worse for anyone else.

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Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick a.k.a. Raccoon Fink
Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development

Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/
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