On 30.10.2019 21:27, Dave Tyson wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 14:53, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote: >> >> Are there kde4 users in pkgsrc that can still build kde4? >> >> There are strong suspects with probability of certainty that it is >> broken in several ways and incomplete. >> > > I've been building kde4 on NetBSD with amd64 kernel over the last few years > using the kde4 meta-pkg with mixed success. > > The last build which was fairly painless was pkgsrc-2019Q2 under NetBSD > 8_1.STABLE but I had to mess around and comment out a few packages to get it > to complete. Most stuff seems to work OK under light testing except kmail - > this core dumps on invocation, but works fine if started under gdb :-) I think > that last time kmail just worked was about 3 years ago under NetBSD 7. I was > intending to use this NetBSD 8 release to update a Lenovo T400 which still > runs NetBSD 7 but would really prefer to run NetBSD 9. > > A recent attempt compiling kde4 under NetBSD 9_beta and pkgsrc-2019Q3 was > pretty hopeless - I have forgotten the exact problem, but it was a serious > incompatibility between an updated package library and a kde component which > used it. The kde4 package collection is now seriously out of kilter with > updated dependency components in pkgsrc and the problem is getting worse with > each pkgsrc update so I doubt if it will ever work without a lot of effort > which would be better directed at kde5. > > Dave > > Thank you for your feedback. Regarding kmail, please try as root: sysctl -w security.pax.mprotect.enabled=0 gdb disables (relaxes) restrictions and this is the symptom o PaX MPROTECT violation.
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