From kde-solaris Sun Jun 06 05:49:27 2004 From: Damien Uern Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 05:49:27 +0000 To: kde-solaris Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] 32-bit KDE 3.2.2 Solaris packages built with Forte Message-Id: <200406061507.38352.morpheus_2606 () internode ! on ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-solaris&m=108650026310934 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:59 pm, Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a graduate student at UCI and our software installation ability is > very restricted. Meaning that everything students install must be under > certain directories, other than the standard Solaris ones. So would this > release work with a different KDEDIR than /opt/kde-3.2.2, as specified? > > Thanks a lot for your work! Should this release work here, it would save > me hours of work :). heh, I just spent a week compiling KDE 3.2.2 in my home directory at my university :) Now I'm a pro at it! Ahhh, goodbye CDE! Damien > > ------------------------------ > Pablo Diaz Gutierrez > http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pablo > Jabber ID: pdg@jabber.com > ------------------------------ > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Stefan Teleman wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have uploaded the 32-bit KDE 3.2.2 packages for Solaris 8/9 built on > > Solaris 8 with the Sun Forte 8 compilers, consisting of a full > > release of KDE, KDevelop 3.0.3 and Quanta 3.2.2. As an added bonus, > > KBear 2.1 is included in the kdenetwork package. The packages can be > > found at: > > > > kde/stable/3.2.2/contrib/Solaris/8/ > > > > from your favorite KDE mirror. Please allow a few hours for the > > mirrors to sync (the lag time can be anywhere between 3 to 12 hours). > > > > KOffice 1.3.1 will follow very shortly. > > > > Some notes about this release: > > > > All the security patches announced in May have been applied to this > > binary release. > > > > The installation directories follow the same conventions as before > > (/opt/qt-3.3.2-32 and /opt/kde-3.2.2). > > > > The kderequired package is fully binary compatible with the Forte > > built KDE packages for 3.2.1 or 3.1.4. You can safely remove any of > > the previous versions of kderequired, and install the current > > version; it will not break KDE 3.1.4 or 3.2.1. > > > > This version of KDE uses QT 3.3.2. I have noticed many improvements in > > this release of QT. Most notably, the menu translucency effects are > > handled much better than in previous releases, even without XRender. > > I have also noticed many speed improvements in KDE overall. > > Personally, i like this release of KDE very much. > > > > If you are interested in the KDE Java bindings, there are significant > > improvements in kdebindings as well. > > > > I have included the URL for TrueType font antialiasing configuration > > in the Installation Instructions. ttmkfdir, fontconfig and freetype > > are included in the kderequired package. If you have not installed > > KDE before, please please please read the installation instructions. > > > > :-P > > > > As usual, if you have any questions, please post a question here or > > send me an email -- i will try to help. > > > > Please make sure you have applied the latest Sun patches to the > > standard C/C++ libraries and to the X server. Usually, the latest > > jumbo recommended patch cluster from Sun contains all that is needed. > > > > Please also make sure that your X server runs in 24-bit mode. > > > > If you do not have /usr/lib/libsunmath.so.1 installed on your system, > > then you should install the kderuntime package. Sun allows libsunmath > > to be freely distributed with third-party software. You do not need > > to install this package if libsunmath.so.1 is already installed, and > > it is a reasonably recent version. > > > > The Forte compilers and GCC are NOT binary compatible. I have received > > many emails about problems when KDE built with Forte picks up some > > libraries (usually graphic file formats like png or jpeg) built with > > GCC. This will cause problems that i cannot fix. It can cause icons > > or images to not be displayed, or to be displayed incorreclty, or > > even unexplainable weird behavior or crashes. > > > > I have also uploaded all the patches to the modified files in xdelta > > format (xdelta can be found in kderequired), and also as a tar.bz2 > > archive of all the modified source files in > > KDE322PatchedFilesInFull.tar.bz2. I find it easier to just use a full > > source file, rather than applying patches. I have also uploaded an > > archive of all my configuration files, containing compiler flags for > > Forte, some trivial but useful environment variable settings, and a > > sample libtool (which had to be modified by hand). The same libtool > > can be used to built all the KDE modules. > > > > I will upload the patches for KOffice 1.3.1 together with the binary > > package. > > > > If you attempt at building KDE from source, with my patches, with > > Forte 8, on Solaris 9, there may be additional patching required > > (mostly related to ambiguities between double and long double in some > > standard math library functions). Usually, these can be easily fixed > > with a static_cast(offender variable). Also, please keep in > > mind that, unless you also build all the required libraries with > > Forte, you will most likely run into the Forte/GCC binary > > incompatibility problem. > > > > It is very likely that these packages will run just fine on Solaris 9 > > as well. I have not had the time to test on Solaris 9 yet -- i am > > planning on testing it this weekend, and i will post an update. > > > > Have fun with KDE. > > > > --Stefan > > > > -- > > Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition' > > steleman@nyc.rr.com -Monty Python > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde-solaris mailing list. > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-solaris. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-solaris mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-solaris. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. - -- "Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?" -Leela "Well, sure, but not in our dreams. 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