FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64.

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Wed Oct 22 01:45:51 PDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:57:30AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > 
> > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety working 
> > as well on amd64 as on x86. 
> 
> I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like
> libxkbfile.a into a shared library.  This is fatal on amd64, but it
> seems you can get away with it on i386.

This is also a problem for ia64. Check the logs or ask arved at . He has
gotten kde3 to build all the way up to koffice, which fails for the
exact same reason: linking an archive library built without -fPIC
into a shared library.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


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