Hey Manish,

Just one word to describe this - WOW ! I am going to try this out over 
the weekend.
Can't say enough thanks to Stefan and Adrian ! I can finally get rid of 
my JDS desktop ;-)

Cheers,
Ananth

Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Hi BOSUG,
>
> I've been able to get KDE4 (upto kdelibs) up and running on Solaris
> 10. (using Sun Studio 12)
>
> Thanks to the excellent work of Adriaan de Groot and Stefan Teleman,
> building KDE4 now is ridiculously easy!
>
> This is ofcourse due to months of hard work on their part.
>
> I think it _should_ be possible to build KDE4 (using SS12) on belenix
> ( Plz refer my earlier mail, i'm having trouble getting Belenix up
> under VMWare )
>
> The KDE4 build system builds a lot of libs as prerequisities.
> This is mainly because S10 is pretty outdated and most of the libs are
> too old / not present.
>
> At present there will be a lot of duplication of libs as the build
> system targets S10. I need to spend some time and take out the extra
> stuff. Anyone willing to do it / collaborate is more than welcome :)
>
> BeleniX is a KDE based distro ( it's also an XFCE based distro :) )
> and I would love to get KDE4 on it.
>
> All that the build system requires is Sun Studio 12 to be present on the 
> system.
> ( It even fetches / builds subversion as part of the build process :)  )
>
> The documentation for the build system can be obtained by
> svn co https://svn2.cvsdude.com/kdesolaris/trunk/Build
>
> Thanks
>   


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