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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:37:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        eT <eT@post.com>, Hackers FreeBSD <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: KDE on FreeBSD (missing symbols)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907201536290.15790-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907202239300.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> > You've gotta choose between the lesser of two evils.  First, Qt 1.44 is
> > *not* recommended you should use Qt 1.42.  Second of all, TT's support of
> > FreeBSD sucks, the FreeBSD port of Qt sucks.  TT has enabled -fno-rtti
> > which causes problems for applications (such as KDE apps) that aren't
> > compiled with -fno-rtti.  The FreeBSD port still suffers from this, as
> > well as depending on Mesa(?!). 
> > 
> > With whatever Qt version you're using go into the appropiate
> > configs/freebsd-... file and remove -fno-rtti.
> 
> Who maintains the FreeBSD qt port? Perhaps you should fix the problems in
> the port and submit them as patches to the maintainer (and TT).

I've been down that road before, and found that it was much less stressful
and quite a bit easier to simply add a note to the README file included
with the KDE modules; which is what I've done with the rtti issue too.

- alex

You wear guilt,
like shackles on your feet,
Like a halo in reverse
  - Depeche Mode




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