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.

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