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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      The Gupta Age <thegage@fastmail.fm>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: KDE 3.0 broken in current??
Message-ID:  <20021010065051.S65974-100000@kashmir.etowns.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021009211952.Q97120@espresso.q9media.com>

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Thanks a bunch for the replies
Terry's workaround works fine.
I am not sure what the real culprit is?
If the two of you guys could elaborate a little bit
may be i will learn a thing or two.
Anyways Mike if you need a amateur helping hand, I
will be glad to help!

best regards,
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:

|Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
|> KDE is broken; it's assuming promisucous headers.
|
|This could be our fault.  We advertise ourselves as POSIX.1-2001
|conformant, but only about 2/3 of our standard headers are.  I'm
|systematically working my through them, but some issues take longer to
|solve than others.
|
|> Workaround:
|>
|> 	mv netdev.c netdev.c.broken
|> 	echo "#include <sys/types.h>" > netdev.c
|> 	cat netdev.c.broken >> netdev.c
|>
|> Probably, this should be handled by sending a patch back to the KDE
|> folks, whose servers were dead and being repaired yesterday.  You
|> could also make a port path that patched netdev.c, as an interim
|> fix (include the header before including the <sys/socket.h> header).
|>
|> Unfortunately, It still has not been 72 hours for the download, so
|> I still do not have the KDE sources available locally.
|
|Best regards,
|Mike Barcroft
|



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