Re: building kde4(-baseapps)

2014-03-11 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Mar 11, 2014, at 15:44, Nicolas Pavillon wrote: > 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've run through all kcmshell4 modules, adjusting things here and there

Re: building kde4(-baseapps)

2014-03-11 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Mar 11, 2014, at 15:44, Nicolas Pavillon wrote: > 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

Re: building kde4(-baseapps)

2014-03-11 Thread Nicolas Pavillon
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

Re: building kde4(-baseapps)

2014-03-11 Thread René J.V. Bertin
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

Re: building kde4-baseapps

2014-03-04 Thread Ian Wadham
On 04/03/2014, at 12:35 PM, James Linder wrote: > On 4 Mar 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> It is trivial to make Linux boot on a Mac - I have a number of Mac Pros >> booting into Ubuntu at work. Either single, double or triple (or more) boot. >> Same hard d

Re: building kde4-baseapps

2014-03-03 Thread James Linder
On 4 Mar 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> I think that is pretty much out of the question, unless you run a virtual >> machine. I am not sure where Linux is up to with dual-booting on Mac. >> When I last looked, about two years ago, it was possible with Win

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/03/2014, at 10:22 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Monday March 03 2014 13:25:20 Ian Wadham wrote: > >> Yes, but I don't know what they all are. I have tried to find out … :-( >> They >> are portable, in a language and library sense, but not in a design sense. >> KDE/Linux is one desktop/

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday March 03 2014 13:25:20 Ian Wadham wrote: > Yes, but I don't know what they all are. I have tried to find out … :-( They > are portable, in a language and library sense, but not in a design sense. > KDE/Linux is one desktop/OS and OS X is another. It's a difference in > infrastructure.

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/03/2014, at 1:19 PM, Frank Schima wrote: > On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> I think that is pretty much out of the question, unless you run a virtual >> machine. I am not sure where Linux is up to with dual-booting on Mac. >> When I last looked, about two years ago, it was p

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/03/2014, at 11:34 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Mar 02, 2014, at 23:02, Ian Wadham wrote: >> A lot of the portability of the libraries stems from the underlying Qt 4 >> library (see 'port info qt4-mac'), which is a very good fit on OS X and > > That's what I'd hope, indeed! Pity that the

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread Frank Schima
On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > I think that is pretty much out of the question, unless you run a virtual > machine. I am not sure where Linux is up to with dual-booting on Mac. > When I last looked, about two years ago, it was possible with Windows > (using Apple's Boot Camp) b

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Mar 02, 2014, at 23:02, Ian Wadham wrote: > A lot of the portability of the libraries stems from the underlying Qt 4 > library (see 'port info qt4-mac'), which is a very good fit on OS X and That's what I'd hope, indeed! Pity that the same portability hasn't been assured in the non-graphics d

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/03/2014, at 2:31 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > BTW, how complete is support for KDE4 on OS X? Is it more a proof of concept, Support from the KDE group for KDE 4 on OS X? Almost non-existent: I think very few of them have Macs … :-) If you can nail down a problem in a KDE library or build,

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread René J.V. Bertin
Hello, On Mar 02, 2014, at 11:02, Nicolas Pavillon wrote: > I came up similar errors in some cases (but not this particular one), where > symbols are not recognised for some weird reason. A workaround can be to > statically link these symbols by including the object file directly in the > execu

Re: building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-03-02 Thread Nicolas Pavillon
Hello, Kde4-baseapps should build fine in standard configuration, also in the case of Snow Leopard. However, your build log is partial, so that it is not easy to be precise. One thing is that you are not using the standard compiler (gcc-mp-4.7) so that you may encounter other errors, but I don

building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

2014-02-22 Thread René J.V. Bertin
I'd be interested to run certain KDE apps on my MBP, so I'm trying to install KDE. Apart from some doubts as to whether the services which I'm told to launch via launchctl will actually work (I'm used to seeing errors concerning dbus not being available) the install has gone without hickups unti