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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to build kde-workspace
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Hi,

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 05:32:48 -0500
"Jerry" <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:

> > On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:36 PM Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:27:02 -0500
> > "Jerry" <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Due to this problem, I am halfway through updating KDE4.
> > > > > Unfortunately, now I cannot even start KDE, so I have a
> > > > > serious problem.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > you can avoid this problem in the future by using a tool like
> > > > portupgrade
> > > and
> > > > by installing simple window manager like blackbox.
> > > >
> > > > Even if your KDE would be gone, you still would be able to use
> > > > X.
> > >
> > > I used "portmaster" although I usually use "portupgrade". Building
> > > manually though does not fix the problem.
> > >
> > I know. Just stay with portupgrade for the future. Always create
> > packages
> as
> > a backup. So, you can always go back to the old version, no matter
> > what happens.
> > 
> > I would suggest that you try an older revision now. I was able to
> > build
> KDE
> > with revision 342933. There should be newer revisions with which it
> > still
> will
> > work.
> 
> I have discovered that this is a known problem. There are at least two
> solutions.
> 
> 1)  Set "GLES=off: OpenGL ES 2.0 support in kwin and kinfocenter" in
> the "/x11/kde4-workspace" port.
> 
> 2) Run:  "pkg remove -f libglesv2-9.1.7" before building the port.
> 
> Evidently this problem does not surface on a fresh installation of
> KDE4, It would have been nice if there had been a notation in the
> UPDATING log that this condition existed.
> 
this is interesting. I have KDE always installed because I use some of
its programs but not KDE itself. As such, I have to upgrade it all the
while. So, I am just lucky that either GLES is off by chance or
something else helped me.

Yes, a note in UPDATING would be needed in cases like this.

Erich