[kde-solaris] KDE 3.1.4 status update

[Laurent Blume]

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Given the unpleasant amount of problems some of you seem to have had 
> with the kderequired jumbo pkg and pkg relocation, i will build 3.1.4 
> with RPATH disabled. This way, there will no hardcoded library paths 
> into shared libraries or executables. On the flip side, this creates 
> another little problem: LD_LIBARY_PATH has to be set, and it may end 
> up being very long. 

I thought using -R was just adding a first level of paths to look in at 
runtime link?
Ie, you could leave it on, and if you don't have the given 
-R/path/to/lib, but have the right lib somewhere either in crle(1) or 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it would work?

That would allow people like me to have very long crle(1) or 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH if they want to use their own compiled libs, and others 
to just install Sunfreeware/Blastwave/KDErequired stuff and get away 
with it,

> I will also try my very best to re-package kderequired into its 
> separate components. That means there will be a _lot_ of individual 
> packages to be installed, one by one. I guess i would call it a 
> tradeoff in pain. :-) I don't know if this really is a better 
> approach, i am only trying to make things easier. If you think it's a 
> loser, please let me know. :-) It also means one extra week of delay 
> in releasing, because i have to build these packages separately, one 
> by one, and there's quite a few of them. :-(

I'm trying to do the same packages for my own use, and I understand the 
pain.
Since it's my first try at packaging, I'm not sure I'm doing it the 
right way, but it seems to work so far - just takes long :-)

> On the issue of why is kderequired really required: the truth is, 
> mixing very aggressively optimized Forte generated code with gcc 
> generated code (of which most of the time i cannot even determine how 
> it was built) does not always work. gcc C++ and Forte C++ are not 
> fully binary compatible with each other, especially at such high 
> levels of specific UltraSPARC optimization. When i was working on my 
> first try at KDE (early this year), i tried to use some gcc built 
> libraries off the 'Net, and i gave up very soon, because of 
> unpredictable behavior, which disappeared once i built everything 
> with Forte.

I'm not a C++ specialist, but I'm *sure* that C++ ABIs are different 
between Forte and GCC, and any other C++ compiler (I was explained why 
recently on the solarisonintel list).
So Forte-built libs won't link with GCC-built binaries.
I guess that was one reason why Sun chose GNOME over KDE, since there is 
less C++ there.

> Thank you so much to everyone for their kind support and feedback.

You're doing a great job, that's why :-)

Laurent