On 11/28/06, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
