From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 18:51:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C6216A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:51:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE3643D45 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:51:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so2196823nzo for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:51:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=AjUrzfRwSN/c6fYVulNamh7tQRbO5YgycaiWQ77ZHP7uU16G9edrLrEUJ4jC9CFiT2bKO0OJxZBFm6YI0RNFbXBAq1WdjUke0Cn0VmChkEPwHhu7ITTLcVwO9BKfpgaeGf3xxuD/7yyc8jeCaQAPvSJvbWVP3DsiLPjvBGEFyNQ= Received: by 10.37.22.26 with SMTP id z26mr861686nzi; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.13.196]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 20sm4054939nzp.2006.01.01.10.51.32; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:51:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:51:29 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060101120052.3E1BC16A420@hub.freebsd.org> <48049.127.0.0.1.1136141214.squirrel@www.apriori.net> In-Reply-To: <48049.127.0.0.1.1136141214.squirrel@www.apriori.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601011051.29946.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: nospam@apriori.net Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:51:34 -0000 On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:46, nospam@apriori.net wrote: > I've been trying to install the newer release of KDE on my 5.4 system with > no luck. Here are some attempts: > > 1. Download kdebase-3.5.0 tarball, run ./configure (for starters): > > [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/kdebase/kdebase-3.5.0(40): ./configure > checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.4 > checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.4 > checking target system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.4 > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking for -p flag to install... yes > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for gawk... no > checking for mawk... no > checking for nawk... nawk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking for kde-config... not found > configure: error: The important program kde-config was not found! > Please check whether you installed KDE correctly. > > ...I couldn't find a tarball or anything else looking like "kde-config" to > install. > > 2. Use konstruct: > > Download the sources, untar them. They are supposed to play like FBSD > ports; cd into some directory and type make install. There is a "meta" > directory; here's what happens there: > > [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/konstruct/meta(48): make install > "../category.mk", line 13: Need an operator > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > > 3. Some other attempt wth konstruct; cd into the kdebase subdirectory and > do a make install there: > > [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/konstruct/kde/kdebase(54): make install > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 38: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 54: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 64: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 100: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 108: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 116: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 134: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 135: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 136: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 137: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 138: Need an operator > "../../gar.conf.mk", line 139: Need an operator > "../../gar.lib.mk", line 272: Need an operator > "../../gar.lib.mk", line 274: Need an operator > "../../gar.lib.mk", line 277: Need an operator > "../../gar.lib.mk", line 288: Need an operator > "../../color.mk", line 19: Missing dependency operator > "../../color.mk", line 62: Need an operator > "../../gar.mk", line 65: Need an operator > "../../gar.mk", line 67: Need an operator > "../../gar.mk", line 69: Need an operator > Error expanding embedded variable. > > I didn't play with the gar.conf.mk file; it looked like it was supposed to > run okay the way it was. I probably do not understand what they're doing > with the gar.conf.mk files. > > cheers & happy new year - > -- paz. > There is a perfectly good version of KDE in the ports tree, why do this? -Mike