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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: New release of krn (0.0.5) WONT COMPILE!
From:       Richard Furda <rfurda () wgss ! net>
Date:       1997-08-30 19:51:11
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Hello,


At 10:59 PM 8/29/97 -0300, you wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jeff Weeks wrote:
>
>> Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi!
>> > 
>> > There is new release of krn, called krn-0.0.5, already uploaded to
>> > ftp.kde.org, soon to be moved to the usual places.
>> 
>> "Well, that's cool" I thought, and decided to download the newest KDE
>> distribution.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile the version of krn from that
>> distribution, or the newest mentioned in this message.
>> 
>> The error I get is an undefined reference to the following functions:
>> 
>> re_comp(char const *);
>> re_exec(char const *);
>> 
>> which are called from KMFolder::createToc(void);
>> 
>> What's going on here?  Anybody know?
>
>This has been reported, but I have been unable to reproduce it in my system.
>Apparently, for somebody running BSD, it was fixed by adding -lcompat in 
>the LDFLAGS. 

I use FreeBSD (2.2.2) and I patched it myself by adding "-lcompat" and then
kdeapps compiled
with no troubles at all...

>
>For another person, it was fixed by adding an extern "C" around one of 
>the #include statements. Sadly I don't remember which one, and I lost the 
>message :-(
>Should be in one of the KDE mailing list archives.

What BSD flavour are you running ?
Are you using gmake-3.75 ? KDE does not like the BSD 'make', it will not
compile with it.

Hope it helps,
Rich
rich@wgss.net 

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