Alexander K. Hansen <akh43 <at> columbia.edu> writes: > > Bill Bug wrote: > > >Bill Bug <William.Bug <at> drexel.edu> writes: > > > > > > > >>I'm running out of hair to pull in my efforts to get KDevelop to build. > >> > >> > >> > > > >Sorry to be laboring this point, but is no one else having difficulty > >installing KDE applications on Tiger (OS X v10.4.2)? > > > Sure--but not everybody is, so the error you had wasn't ubiquitous--I > built KDE on Tiger, for example, but using XCode2.0 . > > Nothing jumped out at me when I looked at your error output, so one > question would be whether you installed XCode2.1 cleanly or in place > over your 1.5 (or whatever it was).
Many thanks for getting back to me, Alexander. I really appreciate hearing there is nothing intrinsic to the OS X v10.4.2 infrastructure that would keep KDE apps & libs from building. Isn't going to XCode to create the build yourself, however, somewhat contrary to the mission behind Fink? I thought we were suppose to rely on the work done by the many folks maintaining the fink package build files to get these apps to build. Having said that, I can see how you might want to use Fink for all those packages that install easily (and there are many libraries and CLI executables that do), then go to XCode to troubleshoot the building of more complex apps that simply have too many 'unstable' dependencies to build directly in Fink, linking to Fink-built libraries whenever possible. I realize there has been quite a bit of difficulty getting KDE & Qt to build reliably under both Fink & DarwinPorts (I believe the DarwinPorts KDE package is essentially in limbo right now). That is why - I suppose - both KDE & Qt are in the 'unstable' Fink branch. Having said that, there seem to many, many discussions on the Fink lists indicating many KDE-based apps are being built and run via Fink. What is a freeloader with a limited amount of working hours to do? If I had to do the Darwin builds for KDE apps myself, I'd probably just hold off and stick to using these KDE apps only on Linux (or via VNC to a Linux box). BTW, I did a clean install of Tiger, actually, since my Panther system had started getting somewhat unstable, and I was long overdue for some major hard drive house cleaning (my PBook 70 GB hard drive is back up to 60% free - up from about 15%). This means I installed XCode v2.0 fresh, then updated to v2.1 when that major upgrade came out around the Apple WWDC a month or so ago. Thanks again for the info. Cheers, Bill ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
