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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:30:23 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org>
Cc:        <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   XFree86-4.0.2 is BROKEN (Was: Re: kdesupport2 fails to compile on 4.2-STABLE ...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101091329160.21326-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010109112553.D5073@external.org>

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Hi Jeremy ...

	Right now, several of us are having problems just getting X-4.0.2
to install ... I haven't even gotten as far as trying to build KDE yet ...


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jeremy Shaffner wrote:

>
> Just to clear the air, and provide a timeline of sorts:
>
> XFree86-4.0.2_3 (afaik, the only difference between _3 and _4 is the
> switch from builtin freetype2 to print/freetype2) built fine for me.  I
> don't use WindowMaker anymore so I don't care about freetype other than
> for fonts.
>
> I was the one who originally suggested building KDE with -pthread to get
> it to build (when it failed under do-configure looking for QT.)
>
> While it built ok, it was very broken (mostly kdeinit, which does alot.)
>
> Then someone (David, don't have his last name) told me he built QT with
> -no-opengl (which Will has since committed) and - removing the -pthread
> _that_I_said_to_put_there_ from KDE's ports - was able to build and run
> KDE without problems.
>
> I have done the same and everything is perfect...truetype fonts,
> anti-aliasing, KDE2.
>
> None of it has anything to do with what version of FreeBSD you're
> running.
>
> I also speculated about the following:
>
> When Will committed the -no-opengl option to QT, he also fixed
> do-install to install the threaded QT libs.  I wondered if the reason
> KDE [wouldn't build w/out -pthread|was broken with -pthread] was because
> of this.
>
> Kevin?
>
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeremy Shaffner                         | This space for rent.
> jeremy@external.org                     | $ grep happiness life
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