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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdvi/kpathsea hack doesn't work for me
From:       Duncan Haldane <f.d.m.haldane () mciworld ! com>
Date:       1999-11-11 2:59:23
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On 11-Nov-99 Mosfet wrote:
> Have you looked at it's configure? ;-)
> 
> Alexander Feigl wrote:
>> 
>> At Mit, 10 Nov 1999 Mosfet wrote:
>> > Alexander Feigl wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > It seems like the kpathsea "hack" applied recently doesn't work for me. I get an
>> > > empty libkpathsea - with unsesolved symbols as a result. It seems like we
>> > > really have to fix am_edit and not adding dummy files.
>> >
>> > Yes, it is a huge hack right now. Try cd'ing into the kdvi/kpathsea
>> > directory, doing make clean; make, then cd'ing back up to kdvi and
>> > making again.
>> >
>> 
>> Works, but this solution is not very "good". It seems that the second
>> "configure" in kpathsea. At the secord run the kpathsea gets mixed with the top
>> level configure and that seems to be the only reason why this works - strange.
>> Would it be better to integrate kpathsea config into main config?

Hi, I guess from this thread that someone has updated the kpathsea in kde-2.
(I havent managed to build kde-2 recently, but....)

I was the person who updated the kpathsea in KDE-1.1.x cvs this july, as 
kdvi was broken with glibc-2.1 in RedHat 6.0 with the old kpathsea.

The simple replacement with kpathsea from tetex-1.0.6 worked just fine, there
was just a little patching of the kpathsea makefile needed.

You might want to look at the kde-1.1.2 sources to see what I did.  
(I still have the patch somewhere, let me know if it might be of use)


At the time, there was some discussion on the kde-devel list, it
was suspected that the kdvi was 'orphaned', but finally the
kdvi maintainer Markku Hihnala emerged from his long silence to 
say (I paraphrase) "he was busy right then, dont touch the kde-2 kdvi,but
he would have an updated and improved  kdvi ready 'in time for kde-2'"

Has he delivered yet?

Duncan

ps kdvi is one of the major kde apps I use for real work....
(writing scientific articles in TeX)
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E-Mail: Duncan  Haldane <f.d.m.haldane@mciworld.com>
Date: 10-Nov-99
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