James Tyrer posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:26:15 -0700 as excerpted: > I mentioned problems with KDE-4.14.0. At start up, Plasma-Desktop > immediately crashes and will not restart. KATE/KWrite do the same for > apparently the same reason. > > Some research indicates that Qt-4.8.6 will not run on AMD-64 bit > processors. Going back to 4.8.4, which I still had on the system, > fixed the problem. I have not tried 4.8.5 yet. Has anyone used it to > know if it works or not? > > Does anyone know if this had been fixed and if there is a repository > that I could download an updated version from?
While I'm running kde4-live, here's what plasma-desktop --version reports: Qt: 4.8.6 KDE Development Platform: 4.14.0 Plasma Desktop Shell: 4.11.11 ... and uname -m: x86_64 So kde-4.14.x and qt-4.8.6 is running fine on amd64, here. =:^) Do you have any more information on that qt-4.8.6 not running on amd64 claim? Was it qt-4.8.6 in general or only with kde? What part of qt4 (qtcore, qtwebkit, qtgui, etc) was it? With a bit of additional information perhaps I can track down any patches that gentoo has applied that might have fixed it for me here. But without knowing more about what in particular I'm looking for, a quick look at qtcore and qtgui's patches at least, says most of them were from qt-4.8.5, tho still applied in 4.8.6. So if you jumped from 4.8.4 to 4.8.6 and found the latter didn't work, based on my patch-quick-look, 4.8.5 is likely not to work either. I didn't check in detail enough to see if any of them were amd64 specific, however. (FWIW, my qt-4.8.6 is from the gentoo/qt overlay as it hasn't made it into the main gentoo tree yet. Neither has qt-5. They're reworking 4.8.6 and qt-5 both to cooperate better while trying to build qt-based packages on the same system, and to use qt-chooser to select one or the other at runtime. But that work isn't ready for the main tree yet, so 4.8.6 and 5.x both remain in the qt overlay, which I have activated and installed them from. However, other than the occasional build complication from generally qt4-based packages getting confused by qt5, I've not seen any problems from it, and definitely haven't seen any problems with 4.8.6 on amd64 -- this is the first I've read of that at all.) Anyway, qt-4.8.6 is definitely runnable on amd64 as I'm doing it, but that's not saying whether there's patches applied that are allowing it, or that it would or wouldn't break without them. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
