Hi,
I've been using linux for years but thought I'd finally give FreeBSD a try;
Particularly because I don't want to wait another 3 months or more to see
KDE3.4 on my distro... (and partially because of the peer pressure... ;-)
Unfortunetly I can't get it to work. There seems to be a conflict with kde3.4
needing the newest version of perl which destablizes the rest of my system.
I've tried reinstalling FreeBSD 4 times this weekend and gotten no-where so
far. Here's what I'm doing:
I started with a normal FreeBSD 5.3 Stable install from a mini-ISO. When it
asked which pre-fabbed distro I wanted i picked "All'. and said 'yes' to the
ports system question. Install finished through FTP via my university's
broadband-DHCP.
Then I set up the ports system as per my friends directions:
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make install clean
cp /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf /etc
edit this file - uncomment SUP lines, COPTFLAGS, CCFLAGS, CXXFlAGS
change CCFLAGS -O to -O2. then:
cd /usr/src
make update
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
make install clean
Lastly I did:
cd /usr/ports/
make searchname=kde3.4
It gets halfway through and dies because I have an old version of perl.
lang/Perl5.8.5_5 (i think)
and it wants v.5.8.6 so I:
portupgrade lang/perl5.8
and this gives me 5.8.6
Now I run the "make searchname=kde3.4" again and it quickly gets caught in an
infinite loop. First it does a 'make check' and gives
"checking wheather building enviroment is sane... yes"
"checking for..."
after going through that whole script it gives me several paragraphs of output
basiclly saying "aclocal-1.8", "AutoMake-1.8" and "AutoConf" are not
installed and that I should try grabbing "Automake", "Perl", "Autoconf" and
"GNU m4" from "any GNU archive site". Then it does the 'make check' again and
repeats.
After my system hits this point I can't install anything from the ports
system, above mentioned packages included, because they don't exist. If I try
from the command line it goes back into this infinite loop. If i try from
sysinstall it just fails.
/* -----End Saga----- */
Maybe I'm missing somthing stupid but as a newcommer to FreeBSD this has been
my experience. I've skimmed parts of the handbook but haven't had a chance to
read it completly yet. I also refferenced instructions on these two pages.
http://freebsd.kde.org/
http://www.freshports.org/x11/kdebase3/
The saving-grace is I only did this on my (now)dual-boot test-box.
Knowing this is a brand new release of KDE3.4 though, I thought a verbose
email might help track down this new issue.
Any ideas on what I can try - other than starting from scratch again, and then
settling for KDE3.3?
thanks,
Steven
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