From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 19:37: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jericho.intacct.com (adsl-64-164-212-131.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.164.212.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4226F37B71A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcampbell@intacct.com) Received: by jericho.intacct.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 180F948066; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:10:29 -0700 From: "John P. Campbell" To: Michael O'Henly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running KDE 2.1 under FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <20010403161029.A31108@intacct.com> Reply-To: jcampbell@intacct.com References: <01040315490101.01790@pravda.tenzo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <01040315490101.01790@pravda.tenzo.net>; from michael@tenzo.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:49:01PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You shouldn't just copy the makefile. In some cases it might work, but it probably isn't good practice. I updated my ports with cvsup last night and got the new ports for kde 2.1.1. I'm compiling now, we'll see how it goes. jpc On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:49:01PM -0700, Michael O'Henly wrote: > Hi... > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.2 and I'm trying to get KDE 2.1 up and running. > > In /usr/ports/x11/kde2 I see a Makefile that refers to an early version of > KDE2 (which would have been current around the time 4.2 was released). > > So I went to http://www.freebsd.org/ports and downloaded the "KDE 2.1" > Makefile and replaced the old "KDE 2.0" Makefile with it. I guessed (perhaps > incorrectly?) that as a "meta-port" this new Makefile would grab all the > appropriate components of 2.1 and build them accordingly. > > Instead, what I seem to have wound up with is (at least partly) the early > "2.0 pre". Among other things, Konqueror doesn't launch and I have to > Alt-Ctrl-Bksp to exit from KDE. > > So...my questions are: > > 1. What should I be doing to build KDE 2.1 correctly? > > 2. Is there yet a port for KDE 2.1.1? (Is one likely to be posted?) > > 3. I understand there is a way to refresh the ports collection after you've > installed. Is the reason I've built a "2.0 pre" version because I only > changed the top-level KDE2 Makefile in an otherwise stock 4.2 ports > collection? > > 4. Building KDE 2.0 pre took about 14 hours on a PIII 500Mhz system. Is that > typical? > > Thank you for any advice you can offer. > > M. > > -- > Michael O'Henly > TENZO Design > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- John P. Campbell Intacct Corporation 408-395-0961 720 University Ave. Ste. 100 Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message