Hello, 

> I've been making some progress, using gcc-4.2 and tweaking Portfiles where 
> required. Lots of apps appear to be nicely functional, even, including Kate 
> and Konsole. (I had an issue with KWrite, but since I hardly ever used it I 
> dropped it). I should say that I built Kate, Konsole and a number of others 
> "by hand", not using port.
I am still surprised that you have to build so much ports by hand. The ones you 
explicitly name built typically fine on all configurations I could test, 
including the build bot of 10.6, which is the same system as yours to my 
understanding, although the XCode version is different. The fact that you are 
using a custom install prefix although prevents you to use the binary 
distributables. 

> KMail works, except for the settings dialog, which shows an empty and very 
> narrow left side-bar, and an otherwise empty window with just the button row 
> on the bottom. It built without issues with the other kdepim apps, so I 
> wonder if this is a known issue?
Several PIM applications of KDE rely on the akonadi server which must be 
running, but I am not sure about KMail. You can refer to “port notes akonadi” 
about this.  

> I had some initial luck building PyKDE4 by hand, though I'm not sure if it is 
> functional. WHen I tried to build it again this morning with my /usr/local 
> tree moved aside, I got stuck on hard-coded, non-conditional references to 
> X11 that I didn't know what to do with.
What you are describing is the reason why there is no port providing PyKDE4. 
Due to the lack of support without X11, I gave up on trying to make a Portfile 
for it. 

> The same references seem to be biting me building kde4-workspace by hand. I'd 
> like to have at least the systemsettings tool, and if I'd be curious to see 
> how kwin works .. as an X11 window manager :)
They are indeed also issues with required dependencies on X11 on this side, 
which is incompatible with the use of the native qt4-mac port. This is 
described in the ticket 33780 (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33780), where 
there are apparently patches waiting review upstream to make it work. 

Cheers, 

Nicolas

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