[KDE/Mac] Repository for patches to fix KDE Problems on OS X

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 28, 2014, at 10:58 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bradley,
> 
> On 29/06/2014, at 1:08 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Re making kde4-runtime an automatic dependency of every KDE
>>> app in MacPorts, that would be an overkill IMHO.  It *is* a dependency
>>> in a KDE desktop on Linux, but there is a lot of stuff in it that would be
>>> irrelevant in Apple OS X, see the list in:
>>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-runtime/repository
>>> 
>>> I need to at least finish working on getting the KDE bug dialogs to
>>> run and then we could patch kdelibs4 and kde4-runtime in MacPorts.
>>> Maybe, as a quick fix, we could then declare kde4-runtime as a
>>> dependency of all KDE apps, depending on what comes out of my
>>> further investigations and what Nicolas and Bradley think.
>> 
>> If we end up with this quick fix most MacPorts users will enjoy the benefits of installing a binary of kde4-runtime from:
>> http://packages.macports.org/kde4-runtime/
>> 
>> Ian, is the kde4-runtime +debug variant required for Dr Konqi to work?
> 
> I have never known what the +debug variant does in KDE in MacPorts
> and have not used it.  What I hope it does is just to turn on the debug
> options in CMake and compilers/linkers so that symbol tables and
> source-code line numbers are available to debuggers and crash
> analyzers.
> 
> If the application or library that crashes was not built with debug info,
> then Dr Konqi will produce a backtrace with no source-line references,
> which is not as useful to a KDE developer, but better than nothing.
> 
> The developer might not be able to reproduce the crash and might then
> ask the user for a re-run with debug options enabled, which I guess means that
> the user might be re-building and re-installing large slabs of KDE in debug mode,
> if he or she agrees to do so.  OTOH if that kind of bug is dependent on OS X,
> maybe we could field it via macports-users or a ticket even.  IME only about
> 10% of KDE bugs are dependent on OS X and I am hoping that number will
> become less.  Most can be reproduced on Linux, if they are reproducible.
> 
> From the MacPorts user's point of view, the main thing is to have Dr Konqi
> *run* if a KDE app or library crashes and prompt the user for info, rather than
> let the app just disappear and maybe invite the user to tell Apple.  An auto
> backtrace with full debug info is cream on the coffee.  But otherwise it is just
> nice for the developer to know what the user was doing when the app crashed.

Makes sense. So DrK should run but with less details when KDE is installed as a binary without +debug.
I asked because rebuilding from source +debug is painful once one has gotten used to binary installs of large packages and making +debug the default sounds excessive :)


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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