-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Wilner wrote: > Hi, > > First off, thanks to all the developers working on KDE4 for Solaris. I > am amazed that you've done and maintained the port at all. > > I've got a couple of questions/comments: > > Re: the bionicmutton.com binaries: > > 1) It's briefly recommended in the install instructions that users > install with pkgtool rather than pkgadd. For those of us that aren't > SFE experts, it's not totally intuitive how to do that. It might help > to spell out that users need to get the spec-files from hg (or the > snapshot), download/unzip/untar into ~/packages, then run pkgtool > install-pkgs from KDE4.x to do the install. > > 2) Installing with pkgtool DEFINITELY works better than with pkgadd. I > previously installed with pkgadd onto snv_98/99. The install mostly > succeeded, but a bunch of the libs packages (most noticeably KDElibs) > didn't create symlinks properly. Do you mean that I should build using the .spec files ( just like SFE? ) as opposed to downloading SVR4 packages from bionicmutton and pkgadd-ing them ? > > Re: building from spec-files, this didn't work at all for me. For one > thing, it looks like the sites in the includes aren't quite right or the > files aren't there. For instance, there's no > http://solaris.bionicmutton.com, but there is > https://solaris.bionicmutton.com. As I noted above, I'm no SFE expert, > so I couldn't seem to work this one out even after changing the sites.inc. > > Thanks again for all of your hard work. KDE4 for Solaris makes it much > easier to use the platform. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kde-discuss mailing list > kde-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-discuss
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