Re: kde4 under current fails to start kwin

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:20:14PM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote:
> Complied kde4 from current pkgsrc under NetBSD current (AMD64). Running
> startkde fails to bring up kwin and the problem appears to be ksmserver
> seems to think it needs to load xcb-sync.so.1 which doesn't exist. There is
> a xcb-sync.so.0 & xcb-sync.so.0.1 in /usr/X11R7/lib. A temporary workaround
> is to make a symbolic link for xcb-sync.so.1 to xcb-sync.so.0. This gets
> kwin started correctly.
> 
> I couldn't find where in the kde build this confusion arose, but there were
> some messages like:
> 
> link library [libxcb-sync.so] in
> /usr/pkgsrc/x11/kde-workspace4/work/.buildlink/lib may be hidden by files
> in: /usr/X11R7/lib
> 
> But these seemed just to refere to the .0 or .0.1 versions...
> 
> Anyone got a clue how to fix it properly?

Use modular xorg?
Just a guess.
 Thomas