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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE on AIX fixes!
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-31 20:44:44
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, David Faure wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:24:38PM +0200, Platzer Wolfgang wrote:
> > Now that the dcopidl problem has been solved on AIX I continue compiling
> > KDE-1.90 on AIX.
> >
> > Since the KDE version of 30052000 seems to be broken for AIX I continue
> > working with version 23052000, which compiles fine, except of these
> > errors:
> >
> > 1) The most common problem (about 80% of the errors) is the missing
> > #include <strings.h>, which contains all non standard ANSI string
> > functions like strcasecmp, bzero, ...
>
> But KDE doesn't use bzero.
> The places where you find this problem with bzero is where FD_ZERO
> is used, and apparently AIX defines it to be bzero without including the
> right header for it. This doesn't look like a KDE issue, but more like
> an AIX one...
>
> > 2) The second big problem is the linker error because of undefined
> > symbols: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: xxx
> > So I have to change the Makefile in each directory manually, and that is
> > very ugly. Maybe I shall focus on the real problem: libtool
>
> I'd say so.
>
> > kdesupport
> > ==========
> >
> > mimelib/protocol.cpp:63
> >   problem: parse error before `int'
> >   solution: remove line (extern int h_errno;) ????
>
> mimelib isn't developed by KDE... kdesupport contains 3rd party libs
> which KDE uses. This should be reported to the mimelib developers,
> unless this line is just plain useless and we can remove it safely ?

I don't think mimelib is maintained/used outside KDE. So we should support it 
as long as it is being used by KDE. (Which applications use it?)

Cheers,
Waldo
 
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