Kde 3.5 compile on Suse 9.2 Success

Phyrexicaid · 12-09-2005, 04:17 AM

Just a quick success story, might help someone out there.

I needed to install quanta but it required kde 3.5, so I downloaded the sources (namely arts 1.5 kdelibs and kdebase)

However, when I installed kdelibs I still couldn't compile quanta. Reason: Suse installs kde to /opt/kde3/ and kde installs itself to /usr/local/kde

Easy fix was to run ./configure with --prefix=/opt/kde3/ for all the kde sources (including arts since it has to be in the same directory as of 3.5)

Now maybe that is obvious, but it wasn't for me!

BTW, I normally use Fluxbox, but 3.5 seems to be a huge increase in speed, maybe just cos I compiled from source, I don't know. But it seems to be running pretty sweet.

equinox · 12-09-2005, 04:49 AM

Ironically the Suse/Novell developers also compiled KDE by source, what a coincedence

Phyrexicaid · 12-09-2005, 06:47 AM

Sarcasm. How original.

The point is that my compiling from source means that its compiled for my architecture. vis-a-vis Yoper. It isn't compiled for compatibility.

This is the reason that mplayer suggests compiling from source and not to use rpms.

equinox · 12-09-2005, 07:16 AM

No. Unless you compiled with your own rpm macros and custom gcc flags you have not compiled for your architecture. All you have done is compiled for i586 using the default gcc flags shipped with Suse.

Anyways, you're taking my little joke too serious.

Phyrexicaid · 12-09-2005, 08:08 AM

Code:

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

ie. what I understood to mean compiled for i686.

But maybe

Code:

checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r

means that it is being compiled for i586. I don't know. That part normally flies by too quickly for me to see.

Your little joke wasn't particularly funny.
If you beleived that the compilation from source wasn't the reason for the increase in speed, you could have just said so. That way you share information in a way that contributes and builds up. I wouldn't get pissed off, and I would now have a better understanding of how the compile process works. Instead you chose to display your "superior knowledge" in a way that mocks my understanding of linux. That's really nice. I even said in my post:

Quote:

maybe just cos I compiled from source, I don't know.

See that, I confess my lack of true understanding. That's where you could have come in and said something like

Quote:

No. Suse compiles KDE from source as well and it is already compiled for the i586 architecture and unless you compiled with your own rpm macros and custom gcc flags you have not compiled for your architecture. All you have done is compiled for i586 using the default gcc flags shipped with Suse.

Then I would have thought you were a really helpful guy instead of being pissed off with you.

I thought the whole point of Linuxquestions was to come together as a community and to support and encourage each other. Now maybe I'm being an overly-sensitive whiny little bastard (probably, but you live in SA, and the taxis on the way home make my blood boil, so maybe you know where I'm coming from...)but if I wanted people to make sarcastic responses to my posts I'd be in a Windows forum.

equinox · 12-09-2005, 08:18 AM

Lol do you subscribe to glug? (jhb)

Your sig looks familiar...

Phyrexicaid · 12-09-2005, 08:53 AM

I do, never really have time to read it though... So it sits in my gmail account doing nothing.

Seriously though, don't want to come across as whiny, its just the thought of all the wasted time compiling from source (kde takes a loooong time) when I could have been installing rpms. Suppose it put me in a mood. And the taxis didn't help either!