On Monday, 11. April 2005 08:12, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Monday, April 11, 2005, 12:13:04 AM, you wrote:
> >>   KDevelop depends on automake-1.9. So, I have `aclocal19' installed.
> >>   But KDevelop (3.2.0) trys to run `aclocal', which is not present on my
> >> system. Is it problems of KDevelop or problems of my system?
>
> MN> KDevelop doesn't work very well with FreeBSD's way of packaging
> MN> autotools. See
> MN> http://frontrangebsd.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2005-January/010048.html
> MN> (the whole thread) for a fairly complete primer about the problems (and
> MN> their  workarounds) of kdevelop.
>  It is very strange for official, supported port :(
>  KDE is ported to FreeBSD, isn't it? 

KDevelop just doesn't try very hard to accomodate unusual setups (and from the 
KDevelop's developers POV, FreeBSD is just plain weird and they have close to 
zero interest in accomodating it).

Of course it's highly dependent on the language module, too, there are 
probably projects where autotools aren't even used. On the other hand, nobody 
in KDE/FreeBSD (including me) cares very much - even the KDE developers here 
don't actually use KDevelop for development.

Possible things to try to make the port work better out of the box: Depend on 
the devel/gnu-auto*, devel/gnu-libtool ports (those are unprefixed) instead 
of the prefixed ones (and nuke the half-working patches to used the prefixed 
ones), then find out what still doesn't work and patch the project templates 
templates accordingly. This could involve pretty extensive patching and will 
involve pretty extensive testing - if you'd like to give it a shot, by all 
means go ahead and post the patches here, we'll be happy to include them in 
the port.

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