[gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

First, no criticism of Gentoo's hardworking devs intended or implied.

I thought I'ld try GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 & update to KDE 3.5.3 .
They're all still "testing", but we do have some responsibility to test,
& they've been there for a while without reports of painful experiences.

Having dealt with GCC & Glibc according to the docs,
I tried to compile Kdelibs 3.5.3 & got a long series of "can't find" msgs
followed by failure: there are a number of similar reports in the Forum.
Flameyes seems to give the authoritative response at Forum 060602 0917 :
  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-467029-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-50.html?sid=759b61da629afeca0dfc16ee01411a17

Following this advice, I unmerged the previous Kdelibs
& tried again with the same result.  A bit more poking around
& I decided the best course was to return to the original state of affairs
& restore GCC 3.4.5, Glibc 2.3 & KDE 3.5.2 .  However when I did,
Kdelibs 3.5.2-r6 failed with the same error !  So recompile everything again
to try to make sure they were all in sync: same bad result !

Being experienced, I had made a quick-package of Kdelibs 3.5.2 ,
which I now tried to re-install via 'emerge -K': it refused,
demanding Qt 3.3.6 -- no longer in Portage -- , where I had 3.3.6-r1 .

Finally, I tried 'emerge -K --nodeps =kdelibs-3.5.2-r6', which worked !
I've rebooted & restarted KDE & all seems to be back to normal.

However, something is still not right with GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 4.2 & KDE 3.5.3 .
There was a recent request on Gentoo Dev for people to test things
prior to stabilising these items for the next profile, so I HTH (smile).

Anyone else have experiences to share ?  Any known-to-work solution ?

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