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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE beta4 on AIX 4.1.5 (fwd)
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1998-05-29 21:28:42
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> 
> > Hallo,
> 
> > pls forward to appropiate KDE-mailing list (I am not subscribed).
> 
> > Thanks.
> 
> > I used AIX 4.1.5, egcs 1.0.2, libstdc++ 2.8.0.0 and libg++ 2.8.0.0 for
> > building parts of KDE beta4. Apart from the normal ./configure; make I had to:
> 
> > 1. Edit kdebase/../ftp.h and kdebase/../slave.h to #include <sys/select.h>
> 
> Why that ? I do not understand this...
> 
> > 2. Use -mminimal-toc as additional CXXFLAG  (kdebase and kdesupport)
> 
> That doesn't seem to be sufficient. Some TOCs are still too large. Read my
> previous postings for additional flags
> 
> > 3. The test for usleep failed, because it involved linking with -ldl, which I
> didn't have. Edited config.h manually.
> 
> ???
> 
> > 4. Used make LIBS="" to avoid linking with -ldl.
> 
> Why ?
This is a bug in the beta4 configure. It has been fixed the same day.
> 
> > 5. Skipped kvt (undefined RLIMIT_NOFILE, no further investigation)
> > 6. Skipped kdehelp because of same iostream-problem as Bernd Finger.
> 
> Problem solved after linking against libstdc++-2.8.1.1.
> 
> > 7. Skipped kdm (I forgot to note the error, can't probably use it anyway with
> DCE)
> 
> > KDE seems to run ok, only some remarks:
> > 1. Screenlock with password doesn't work, probable cause DCE
> 
> No, it's not a DCE problem. It occurred on my AIX 4.3 machine (without DCE) as
> well as some years ago with the public domain version of xlock. The kde lock
> mechanism seems to use the same code segments as xlock does. I did not fix this.
> Where do I have to look for the password decryption routine in the screen
> locking part of KDE ?
kdebase/kscreensaver/passwd.cpp. You're right, that it's taken from xlock.

Greets, Stephan

-- 
Stephan Kulow (coolo@kde.org)
Student of medical CS
Medical University of Luebeck (MFCH)

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