KDE4 applications need X11 ?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

OK, I've been experimenting with building the KDE4 ports over the last  
few days. I'm new to macports so bear with me, but I'm having some  
issues.

I finally managed to get kdebase4 built, which gives some basic  
applications like kwrite, konqueror. However, each time I start these  
they trigger X11 to start ! I thought these where suppose to be using  
QT4-mac, which is OSX native, but it seems some X11 dependency is  
sneaking in. The apps do seem to be aqua though. After starting they  
seem to hang (after triggering X11 to start) but if I kill X11 off  
they sometimes come up (kinda off, all icons are messing and most  
things don't work).

Its clear I haven't done something correct here, either or the KDE4  
ports are simply well broken at the moment (I know they are  
experimental). I thought I had perhaps accidentally built them with  
X11 enabled somehow, so I went back through and rebuilt explicitly  
disabling X11, following the suggestions here

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X/Macbook_Manifesto

but no luck.

Has anyone out there built the KDE4 ports successfully ?

One thing I had to do was use gcc 4.2 for kdelibs4 - I wasn't sure  
whether I should then use gcc 4.2 for all other KDE4 ports, or go back  
to gcc 4.0 for them. I tried using gcc 4.2...

cheers Chris