From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juan Casero To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: casero@beowulf.cox.miami.edu, dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com, kde-user@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: KDE and egcs Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 18:56:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00049.html 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 __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . 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) > >