Hi folks!
I would like to let you know that CDE runs smoothly on Freebsd 9.3.
There is only one caveat: the virtualbox-ose-additions MUST be compiled
via ports, not installed as a binary package. After the installation
they must be locked, otherwise pkg keeps asking to reinstall them via
binary package.
Bye
Alex
On 25.07.2014 00:41, Jon Trulson wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ulrich Wilkens wrote:
On 07/19/14 02:49, Jon Trulson wrote:
Yes. Yes it is :)
I will prepare for a new release by the end of next weekend. If there are
any outstanding patches, please send them in.
I know there was one posted to the list regarding building on FBSD 10
(though not in the form of an actual patch). I can add them, but it
would be better if someone with FBSD could check them out, especially
if it (the iconv stuff) works for other fbsd versions as well:
http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/32361417/
Thanks!
I wouldn't encourage to use -liconv on FreeBSD generally:
- FreeBSD 9 doesn't need it because libiconv.so is used automatically.
Although it doesn't harm.
- On FreeBSD 10 it also shouldn't be used because the iconv functions
have been moved from ports to base system and are now located in
libc.so.
Unfortunately there are some FreeBSD 10 out there that don't have it
in libc.so. I couldn't find out why, but it could be that they are
old FreeBSD 10-current systems which have been updated and something
with the update is incomplete.
The package libiconv that is needed for -liconv can sometimes conflict
with the iconv functions in libc.so. So it is normally better to not
install the package. My solution would be to check for existence of the
package (/usr/local/include/icon.h). If it exists set -liconv, other-
wise leave it out.
I have patches for it and I can send them if there is some interest.
These patches also include build changes for FreeBSD 10. Default is now
to build everything with clang, also the cpp part.
But it can easily switched back to gcc by a config line in host.def or
site.def. In neither way it's necessary to move compiler binaries on
the system.
But I would need some days (next weekend) to complete the patches
and to test them against the latest CDE code.
Regards, Ulrich
Well, there is no rush to release this weekend, I can postpone till
next weekend if that works better for you.
It would be nice to have as much building as possible, and I suspect
a great many FBSD users would like to have a cde build that just works
with the default compiler (clang), without a lot of hacking.
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