On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Paul Floyd <paulf at free.fr> wrote: > Hi > > After a long pause in lurk mode, I'm having another go at building KDE. > > Solaris 10, Studio 12, all patched.
good start. > Stright off I see: > > ! msgfmt is not GNU msgfmt; make sure GNU msgfmt > ! is in your path and can be called as "msgfmt" > ! System will probably not compile properly. > ! hit ^C now to abort compilation. > > Can I ignore this? I've been building for months ignoring that message. Unfortunately, the build broke badly with the rush to 4.2 then reversion to 4.1.4. > > and > > NOTE: Couldn't lock the package database. > [a few times] Yes, I notice this, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything. > > Do I need to build as root (or with the right profile)? you need to build with SoftwareAdministration profile. don't do it as root. > Lastly, in the Qt spec file I see > > %include depend-packages.inc > > # TODO: Update to 4.4.5 :) > %define src_name qt > %define src_ver 4.4.1 > > Isn't 4.4.3 the latest 4.4 version, and 4.5.0 that latest of all? As for > 4.5.0, I'd wait for 4.5.1 for some of the GCCisms to be fixed. I don't know. The project seems to have stalled.
