Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:48:39 -0400 From: "Peter D. Pawelek" <ppawel@axess.com> To: djv@bedford.net Cc: anxiety@primenet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE-1.0 Message-ID: <19980720074839.A292@axess.com> In-Reply-To: <199807200314.XAA04284@lucy.bedford.net>; from CyberPeasant on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 11:14:06PM -0400 References: <19980719201020.A244@axess.com> <199807200314.XAA04284@lucy.bedford.net>
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Quoting CyberPeasant (djv@bedford.net): > Peter D. Pawelek wrote: > > Quoting Micah Mayo (anxiety@primenet.com): > > > > > > I've been able to compile KDE 1.0 Support, Libs, Base, Admin, Network, Utils, > > > and most of games(it hung on mygame.cpp or something, but the games work > > > so I'm not incredibly concerned.. But, I did have some problems compiling the > > > multimedia and graphics packages these are the errors i got: > > > > You may want to try using gmake to compile instead of the BSD make utility. > > I found that I was unable to compile the KDE-graphics package with make, > > but it compiled flawlessly with gmake. A good rule of thumb when 'rolling > > your own' is to use gmake when the FreeBSD make pukes. > > > > Of course, Your Mileage May Vary... ;) > > On Linux, a good rule of thumb is to use BSD make (called pmake there), > when gmake pukes. ;-) The reason is that the two makes are relatively > incompatible (SysV vs. BSD again), the symptom is error messages about > the Makefile's syntax. (Gmake typically pukes on BSD-style .include > directives, if not earlier.) > > The problem here seems to me to be that some of the KDE ports are not > properly demanding the SysV-style gmake. I'd say to verify it, then > file a pr to ports. > > Maybe ask of -ports what the "true and righteous" way of specifying > the "other" make for a subset of a port is. AFAIK, the toplevel "port" > Makefile has to be in BSD syntax, since it includes <bsd.port.mk>. > (My guess is that it involves twiddling the MAKE environment variable). > > Curious: the only port in 2.2.6-R that requires gmake to build is > pgp... and it doesn't use it! (It doesn't invoke gmake, just requires > it. Looks like an error.) Ah, that would be a concern if I was building the port, but I was actually compiling KDE source directly from kde.org...I usually don't resort to ports unless absolutely necessary (ie. being a control freak and all that.. ;). Cheers! Peter Pawelek (ppawel@axess.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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