Re: kde4 users?

[Dave Tyson <dtyson%anduin.org.uk@localhost>]

On Saturday 02 Nov 2019 20:49:46 maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:02:33AM +0000, Dave Tyson wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:47:58 GMT Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Hi Kamil,
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip - I did wonder about trying disabling mprotect a while
> > back, but it slipped my mind. Yes - that fixed the problem so kmail just
> > works.
> > 
> > To get the 2019Q2 kde4 meta package to finish building under NetBSD-8 I
> > had to comment out the build of localize and kate in the Makefile.
> > 
> > Mark Davies did recently update pkgsrc-wip to pull in the latest versions
> > of the kde5 packages, and I may try and find time this winter to look at
> > libinput etc.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> 
> I did the packaging equivalent of
> 
> paxctl +m /usr/pkg/bin/kmail
> paxctl +m /usr/pkg/bin/kontact
> paxctl +m /usr/pkg/bin/blogilo
> paxctl +m /usr/pkg/bin/knode
> 
> Let me know if that's sufficient. I only tried to run the various
> kdepim4 binaries.

Yes that works fine for me!

Thanks,
Dave