On my potato box I just built from CVS HEAD last night using traditional means. There were some near show-stopping build and install errors.
Ivan, these errors are so obvious and showstopping without the -k option on make, that I am sure they will be solved in a hurry. So if you pick your moment for updating from CVS you might be able to avoid them. But for what it is worth here are the errors I found during build and install. BUILD: make -k could not compile FFTScopes_impl.cpp and kjloader.cpp within kdemultimedia because of severe syntax errors. INSTALL: Watch out for the "kspell" symlink error that occurs multiple times for each module upon install (if you are using make -k install. Otherwise without the -k option it occurs once and stops the install.) Here are typical error messages from kdebase make -k install. rm -f /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/common ln -s /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/common /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en /kspell/common ln: /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kspell/common/common: File exists rm -f /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kdesu/common ln -s /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/common/usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kspell/common ln: /usr/local/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kspell/common/common: File exists So what seems to be going on is for kcontrol and kdesu (and a whole lot of subdirectories within kdebase and other modules) the kspell link is being (re-)created rather than the appropriate kcontrol, kdesu, etc., link. I must say this is the most bug-filled CVS snapshot build I have ever done. That said, make -k pulled me through, and I am now happily using the latest KDE (although I will avoid using kdemultimedia until my next build). One small but splendid konqueror improvement from last week. No more stupid mouse clicking to get pageup and pagedown to operate correctly. Instead, if you have a focus follows mouse policy, pageup and pagedown work right away without extra clicking. (This was a wishlist item I submitted in September, IIRC.) One konqueror problem continues from last week; I cannot find a way to change the colour of visited links from the default black. Alan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Hi, > > just an update...I am working on new 2.1 beta packages for potato...it's > just taking a bit of time to do them right as alot of things have changed > on the unstable front. (no more suidmanager for example)....so I am moving > a bit slower to make sure I do things right the first time around...With this > batch you will get new qt packages as well with lots of upstream > fixes/updates, > and alot of other bits and pieces...I've also broken out a libarts and libkmid > package with alsa support for those who use alsa..this is another thing that's > taking a bit of work as I have to build updated alsa packages for potato... > > plus I was a bit behind in updates for my potato box so I'm also doing that... > > bit by bit..I should have something for you by Monday night. > > Ivan
