Pardon the breakoff, but continuation of the previous thread might have confused people who were looking for info on makefile creation issues.
> > I've already gotten all the kde4 subdirs to build, and I currently > > have kdm running as I type this email. Unfortunately, many deps I > > added on the fly to get things to build, so the makefiles need to > > be updated so the packages will build on someone's machine who > > doesn't have the proper deps, or knowledge of which deps to add. > > > > With regards to the kde3 issue, I'm not sure I have an immediate > > answer to that. I'd have to check with how other distros do it, if > > they even do it at all. I personally would like to work on fixing > > the KDE4 issues before handling the side by side install issue. > > Just to name a few I've found so far: > No, some other distros do allow that, and it's really the main issue > we need to fix, and the kde people do provide some amount of > documentation about it. Specifically, at least be able to build BOTH > during a bulk build without collision. > > That's the big problem I haven't had time to look at yet. It might not > be difficult to solve, or it might be difficult to solve, but it's really > step 1. > > What you're doing is very simple, and very enjoyable. I've played that > game, I can do it. But the very serious work needed to get kde4 > uptospeed is to figure out the logic behind installing it correctly, so > that we can activate the build. All right, I'll tread that path then. Let me look up their docs on how to best approach building both side by side. If I can't find anything there, I'll see how distros do it and figuring out how to best approach the issue while working inside the OpenBSD way of doing things. I'll post all my findings in an email so we can see if any of the approaches can be made to work, or if I need to search for another alternative. I can't promise I'll be able to do that today, but I'll have something at least by the end of the weekend (America/Pacific). > Right now, what you're doing is noise, and it's not even sure it will > be used, until we have fixed that major issue. All of my fixes to date are for making some of the kde4/* ports actually compile. Nothing has been fixed runtime wise. I'm not sure how they wouldn't be used, unless there is a better solution to fixing the compile issues that I'm not aware of. - Onteria
