Problems building KDE4

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 01:49, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:

> I spent more than 30 hours tryine to compile KDE4. Of course, I did  
> not
> stay all this time in front of the computer.
>
> Would it be possible to help me compiling KDE4. Illogical, KDE4
> maintainer was not able to understand why compilation breaks.  
> Connecting
> on FreeNode, most KDE-MAC developers told me they were able to  
> compile.
>
> So would it be possible to help me find the tiny little thing that  
> make
> everything crash.

I know this is frustrating. I hope someone will be able to help you  
soon.

> 1. As I am connecting remotely to the MacOsX computer, how can I know
> which version of MacOs. 10.4 or 10.5?

uname -a

On my system:

Darwin seven.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10  
18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

To get the Mac OS X version from the Darwin version, subtract 4 from  
the darwin version and prepend "10.", so Darwin 8.11 is Mac OS X  
10.4.11.

> 2. How can I verify that Apple gcc42 is installed. Where should it
> reside.

ls -l /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

On my system:

ls: /usr/bin/gcc-4.2: No such file or directory

(gcc-4.2 does not exist on Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier)

> 3. Was anyone succesfull running this command in the past 7 days: sudo
> port -v install kdesdk4.

I have not tried, but I can try now.