On Sunday 18 May 2008 17:44, Ken Mays wrote: > There are some recent source packages to test building KDE 4.0.74 on > Solaris 10 and SXCE/OpenSolaris 2008.05 with Sun Studio. > > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/4.0.74/src/ > > Will track KBE and KDE 4.x build issues for KDE 4.1 final preparation in > July.
Please report issues -- KBE issues are to my mind more important than KDE ones because KBE is actually work that gets packaged now and needs to be done *first* -- diligently to this mailing list. Those are really important. Although KBE is something to merge back into CBE at some point soon - Luc? Then there's the FOSS* packages (in category KCE), which are similarly important. Those dependencies can be kept to a minimum by building only the targets deps-kde or deps-kde-extra in the SPECS/ directory from Dude. Bear in mind, though, that reporting is subservient to actually *fixing*. All the KBE and KCE dependencies are built regularly on Dillon (the machine in the lab) and my home workstation and Luc's machine and on szt's SPARC and my U45 -- the SPARC builds of ncurses are now proving problematic. So reporting issues is one thing; fixing them is another because we don't necessarily have access to the systems that you're seeing failures on. Also, the build system may be rife with assumptions; like where ~/packages is (it's in $HOME; if you're a Sun employee with an NFS mounted homedir, talk to Michael Schuster and figure it out, then document it on Techbase). Finally, reporting build issues against that particular source package may, or may not, be useful: we build against KDE SVN trunk (until it branches in preparation for 4.1, at which point, given our manpower situation, we'll probably all switch to that branch for a while). It's a fast moving target, and there's probably a bunch of new problems introduced and fixed since that tarball was made. Remember to at least try to apply all the patches from Build/Patches before building, since I know it's not going anywhere without them. [ade]
