Chugging along with KDE in amd64

Adriaan de Groot adridg at sci.kun.nl
Mon Nov 17 13:20:15 PST 2003


[Thanks to all at amd64 - Peter, David in particular - for getting me
started with snapshots and whatnot.]

KDE as a desktop on amd64 works reasonably well, so far. It's certainly
snappy (even with an old matrox mill PCI card). Issues:

* linking libxkbfile.a to KDE stuff. This needs -fPIC when compiling
xkbfile, patch (for x11/XFree86-4-libraries) attached. I don't know if
-fPIC would negatively affect anything else though.

* knotify crashes immediately with SIGABRT.

* korganizer crashes on exit with gobs of malloc(): recursive call output.

A few 64-bit issues (no time_t in utmp entries) have been fixed in KDE CVS
now; I'll be reading my compile logs more closely the next little while to
see where else bad assumptions are made.


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--- lib/xkbfile/Imakefile.old	Mon Nov 17 21:31:00 2003
+++ lib/xkbfile/Imakefile	Mon Nov 17 21:29:59 2003
@@ -37,4 +37,6 @@
 
 #include <Library.tmpl>
 
+CCOPTIONS += -fPIC
+
 DependTarget()


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