Re: KDE4 being packaged

["Chitlesh GOORAH" <chitlesh fedoraproject org>]

On 11/28/06, Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at> wrote:
> There are several reasons this isn't going to work that way:
> * a .desktop is not a shell script, you can't have export statements there
> * $/opt/kde4/lib/ in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH has a $ too many
> * startkde isn't designed to be run like that!

Ah ha, ok, ill make the changes tonight.

> KDEDIR=/opt/kde4 and KDEHOME=~/.kde4 shouldn't be needed, by the way. Look at
> my patches:
> * KDE 4 with the patches looks at KDE4DIR and KDE4HOME, not KDEDIR and KDEHOME,
> so you're setting the wrong environment variables. You're actually changing the
> paths for KDE 3, which is a bad idea.
> * The default paths for KDE4DIR and KDE4HOME are exactly the ones you're
> setting.

Ok, ill remove them

> There are 2 options to run KDE 4:
> * Run a KDE 4 desktop from the console. You need to telinit into runlevel 3,
> then run:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde4/lib /opt/kde4/bin/startkde
> from the terminal. But you can't do this from a running desktop, so a .desktop
> file is the wrong place to put that.
> * Run only individual KDE 4 apps in a KDE 3 or GNOME desktop. My patches are
> designed to allow exactly that. Try for example:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde4/lib /opt/kde4/bin/konqueror
> (Note that Konqueror 4 was pretty badly broken when I snapshotted it. I don't
> know how much of that has been fixed in 3.80.2 or current SVN.)

So what's the best solution to make it work out of the box when we
installed kdebase4 ?

> As for why the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is needed in the first place, this is a side
> effect of disabling the rpath mechanism (-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=TRUE). With the
> rpath, it finds the libraries. (In fact, this is exactly what the rpath is for.
> Rpaths are only bad when they refer to a standard path like /usr/lib
> or /usr/lib64.) I don't know why it didn't build for you without this option
> because it built just fine for me with the rpaths enabled.

But in my case, rpmbuild for kdebase4 fails without -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=TRUE.

chitlesh
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