On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, James D. Freels wrote: > Right now I am just trying to help an alpha-linux friend across the > world to get kde1 running on his alpha. This ia a problem for new > Debian users since kde2 has not been released nor ported to alpha yet. > > As it turns out, I had a Debian 2.1 (slink) alpha CD under my nose and > e-mailed the package to him. We'll see how far he gets.
Ok. It's not that KDE2 isn't ported yet, it's more of a compilation problem with Qt 2.2. Seems that binaries linked against it are segfaulting on exit, which is unacceptible. I just got word that one of the gcc snapshots might solve this, so I'm waiting to find out which one so that I can isolate the fix and perhaps backport it. Qt 2.2 has been the bane of my existance for quite awhile now. I know it seems that nobody is working on it, but I assure you that I work on trying to figure out the problem at least once per day. As soon as we resolve the situation, you'll definitely start seeing KDE packages being uploaded :-) C
