Hi Folks, I have been quiet for a while while busy building KDE 4 and it's tanker-loads of dependencies. I am happy to mention that the entire base KDE 4 consolidation is now built and functional. I am able to startup a KDE 4 desktop with desktop effects enabled along with the latest Nvidia driver.
There are a few issues however. For one kwin keeps cribbing with the following warning at intervals: kwin(723) /export/home/moinakg/packages/BUILD/SFEkdebase4-workspace-4.2.4/kdebase-workspace-4.2.4/kwin/main.cpp: kwin: X Error ( "error: <unknown>[DAMAGE+0], request: XDamageDestroy[DAMAGE+2], resource: 0x14005f6" ) This may be an Nvidia driver issue. Dolphin crashes whenever I hover the mouse over a file icon. It appears to be a font issue when trying to render the popup file preview box. This essentially renders dolphin unusable right now. kwin crashes on logout with the following message: Assertion failed: !c->xlib.lock, file xcb_xlib.c, line 73 Application::crashHandler() called with signal 6; recent crashes: 1 KCrash: Application 'kwin' crashing... Fatal Error: Accessed global static 'KGlobalPrivate *globalData()' after destruction. Defined at /export/home/moina kg/packages/BUILD/SFEkdelibs4-4.2.4/kdelibs-4.2.4/kdecore/kernel/kglobal.cpp:114 Kinfocenter was failing to show various stuff and a couple of modules were not linked properly. I have done a bunch of fixes to Kinfocenter and also enabled showing the interrupt list from mbd -k. A few more changes are needed. There appears to be a Mysql configuration issue that causes Akonadi+Mysql to consume all virtual memory, even on my 4GB RAM box. Other than these initial issues other things are working fine. I had built the earlier XULRunner 1.9.0 for Google Gadgets but now building 1.9.1 from the latest Firefox 3.5 SVN to get the new TraceMonkey JIT engine. Lots of these KDE 4 packages and their dependencies needed patches, some I pulled out of Fedora 11 repo and others I had to spin up. I have built Qt4 with the new Gcc 4.4 Graphite loop optimizations with good results. GraphicsMagick is built with OpenMP support. Python 2.6 is built with Gcc 4.4 along with profile-driven optimizations giving improved performance. The default Python used in KDE 4 and other dependencies is 2.6. I will post more updates shortly. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
