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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:35:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      doug <doug@fledge.watson.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building kdiff3 for kde 3.5
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011200132080.97870@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <201011171117.01428.milu@dat.pl>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011170232180.36217@oceanpt.safeport.com> <201011171117.01428.milu@dat.pl>

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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Maciej Milewski wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:37:51, doug@safeport.com wrote:
>> Apparently only the version for kde4 is on the ports and I could not find a
>> package for 3.5. Building the available source had some interesting results
>> but ultimate did not work. What I finally did was google the 3.5 package
>> name I had installed and found a copy at the University of Kent.
>>
>> There must be a better way to find older ports/packages. What should I have
>> done?
> From kdiff3 homepage looks that from version 0.9.93 kdiff3 works with KDE4.
> Earlier version worked with KDE3 only. In ports is version 0.9.95 and in
> Makefile it's line USE_KDE4 so it builds with KDE4. You can take earlier port
> version 0.9.92 manually from
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/kdiff3/
> or use ports-mgmt/portdowngrade
>
> Regards,
> Maciej Milewski

Thank you, portdowngrade worked perfectly. I doubt I would have found this 
without your help



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