Re: KDE and egcs

[Juan Casero <juan@bellsouth.net>]

Hi H.J. -

Thank you for your offer to help.  After I installed libstdc++-2.8.0
everything worked out.  I was a little confused at first because the egcs
developers mention that the standard c++ libraries come with the compiler
but apparently those who created the RPM binaries I used to install egcs
on my system did not include the libraries by default so I had to fetch
them from the same place and install them.  So far I have successfully
compiled kdebase, kdelibs, kdesupport, kdegames, kdegraphics, and am
currently working on kdenetwork and the rest of the packages.  

I had no choice but to use egcs.  I have recently purchased SWiM motif 2.1
binaries compiled with the stock compiler that comes as part of RedHat
5.0.  All of the code I compiled which used motif was not behaving
correctly.  There were lots of problems with seg faults and file
filtering...etc. For two months I badgered the motif support personnel at
LSL regarding the problems.  They finally figured out that the
c++ compiler in gcc-2.7.2.1 that comes stock with redhat 5.0 was not
generating the correct code.  They sent me via email new binaries compiled
with egcs-1.02.  I installed this compiler on my system and suddenly
the programs I have that make use of the motif shared libs are working
great.  I recompiled my kernel with egcs and recompiled WindowMaker 0.14.1
also but I noticed that WindowMaker became exceedingly sluggish.  It
worked but performance was very poor.  I decided to move to fvwm 2.0.46
that came with RedHat 5.0 until I could find another solution.  I hope I
will not have similar problems with KDE but I have to wait and see.  If
KDE works well with my box such as it is then I will forego WindowMaker
altogether.  GNUStep is nice but right now it is developing slowly.  KDE
seems to be progressing much faster so I guess I'll just move over to it.

Would you consider making the egcs-1.03 release available as a binary RPM?
For some reason I still have gotten around to figuring out how to create
SPEC files and source RPMs on my redhat box.  Compiling a source RPM is a
piece of cake if you have a working compiler.


Thanks..........
 

Juan Casero
email:  casero@beowulf.cox.miami.edu
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, H.J. Lu wrote:

> > 
> > I have already done that.  I have kdesupport and kdelibs installed on my
> > box when I try to compile kdebase. I have compiled the Qt libs from
> > scratch using egcs-1.02 and installed them.  I don''t know exactly where
> > the problem is.  egcs-1.02 is supposed to come with its own copy of
> > libstdc++ but it is not immediately obvious where those libraries are.  So
> > am in a rather complex predicament that I don't know how to solve.  I need
> 
> You did even mention how you configured/installed egcs on RedHat 5.0.
> 
> > egcs cuz the standard c++ compiler that comes with redhat 5.0 is buggy.
> 
> I have warned many months ago that the current default configuration
> for egcs might cause problems for people on Linux who want to install
> egcs as their default compiler. The default Linux configuration in
> egcs 1.0.2 was not designed to be used as the default compiler. You
> may run into the problem I have warned before.
> 
> > However, when I installed egcs now suddenly my old window manager breaks
> 
> You need to give more details on your problem.
> 
> > and does not want to work properly even with a recompile.  So I am forced
> > toresort to something like fvwm2 which seems to work well but is not very
> > aesthetically pleasing.  In an effort to create a functional and
> 
> I have no problem to compile fvwm2 on RH 5.0 with egcs 1.0.2.
> 
> > attractive desktop I decided to install KDE but now I learn that some
> > packages in KDE wont compile while others do.  So right now I am stuck in
> > th hole.  In fact this whole affair has become so frustrating that I have
> > considered installing Solaris 2.6 x86 on my box and removing Linux
> > altogether.  The ultimtate end of a computer should be to make my work
> 
> 
> I have make egcs 1.0.2 linux/x86 binaries avaialable. Please check
> out
> 
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC
> 
> Please do read my release note. If you want to install it, you should
> remove ALL your previous egcs 1.0.2 from your system.
> 
> BTW, I will also make egcs 1.0.3 linux/x86 binaries when it is released
> to public.
> 
> 
> -- 
> H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
> 
>