On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:27:04PM -0700, onteria wrote: > As an update to the building of kde4 side by side with kde3, as well as > getting it to run side by side, I've so far found the following: > > 1) Looking at FreeBSD, the kde4 problem is solved by installation of > kde4 into /usr/local/kde4
No way, sorry but that's utterly gross. FreeBSD doing things like this is not a reason for it being a good idea. Besides, the existing kde4 we have in tree uses the correct layout. > Packages will need to have WANTLIB updated for KDE4 libs, such as the > following example with kde-base: > > WANTLIB += GL GLU ICE SM X11 Xau Xdmcp Xext Xft Xpm Xrender Xt \ > cglib-2.0 kde4/lib/kde3support kde4/lib/kdecore.>=8 \ > kde4/lib/kdesu kde4/lib/kdeui \ Once you'll be at WANTLIB fixes, that means most of the work is done. In the meantime, don't really bother with it.. concentrate on runtime issue/crashes/linuxisms in code.. > Please note that if we want to do divisions of directory structure such > as: > > /usr/local/lib/kde4 > /usr/local/include/kde4 > /usr/local/bin/kde4 > > etc., that this could potentially add a large level of complexity to the > process. Unlike Qt3/4 I don't think the build system easily allows that > level of breaking down. It surely allows that. Landry
