[gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[Philip Webb]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:47, Philip Webb wrote:
> 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 :
>  

and what does kdelibs not find?
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Re: [gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[Philip Webb]

060702 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:47, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I thought I'ld try GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 & update to KDE 3.5.3 .
>> 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 :
> and what does kdelibs not find?

I didn't include it partly because I couldn't think where to look
-- after some sleep, I remembered  /var/log/emerge-logs  --
& also because it depends on what people are trying to compile:
there are similar reports with metabuilds in the Forum.
Here are what appear to be the relevant final lines
(following Flameyes advice above, I had updated to Binutils-2.17 too):

  /usr/qt/3/bin/moc /z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui/kshortcutdialog.h -o kshortcutdialog.moc
  /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs\
  -3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui -I.. -I../dcop -I../kdecore -I../kio/kssl -I../kjs -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6\
  /work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/interfaces -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\
  2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/dcop -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/libltdl -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\
  2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx -I../kdecore -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdecore -I/z/tmp/portag\
  e/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio -I/z/tmp/portage/k\
  delibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kio -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kfile -I/z/tmp/port\
  age/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2 -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -I/usr/kde/3.5/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTR\
  ANT  -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -\
  W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-\
  non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common  -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_N\
  O_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION  -c -o kshortcutdialog.lo kshortcutdialog.cpp
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:44:36: kshortcutdialog_simple.h: No such file or directory
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:45:38: kshortcutdialog_advanced.h: No such file or directory
  kshortcutdialog.cpp: In constructor `KShortcutDialog::KShortcutDialog(const KShortcut&, bool, QWidget*, const char*)':
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:78: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct KShortcutDialogSimple'
  ...
  make[3]: *** [kshortcutdialog.lo] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui'
  ...

Anyone have anything to add to Flameyes' account 1 month ago ?
Again, no criticism intended of any devs involved.

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Re: [gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Monday 03 July 2006 05:12, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060702 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:47, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> I thought I'ld try GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 & update to KDE 3.5.3 .
> >> 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 :
> >
> > and what does kdelibs not find?
>
> I didn't include it partly because I couldn't think where to look
> -- after some sleep, I remembered  /var/log/emerge-logs  --
> & also because it depends on what people are trying to compile:
> there are similar reports with metabuilds in the Forum.
> Here are what appear to be the relevant final lines
> (following Flameyes advice above, I had updated to Binutils-2.17 too):
>
>   /usr/qt/3/bin/moc
> /z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui/kshortcutdialog.h
> -o kshortcutdialog.moc /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs\
> -3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui -I.. -I../dcop -I../kdecore
> -I../kio/kssl -I../kjs -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6\
> /work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/interfaces
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\ 2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/dcop
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/libltdl
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\ 2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx -I../kdecore
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdecore
> -I/z/tmp/portag\ e/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio
> -I/z/tmp/portage/k\ delibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kio
> -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kfile
> -I/z/tmp/port\ age/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2 -I/usr/qt/3/include
> -I. -I/usr/kde/3.5/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTR\ ANT 
> -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align
> -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -\ W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG
> -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wformat-security
> -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-\ non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions
> -fno-check-new -fno-common  -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST
> -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_N\ O_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION  -c -o kshortcutdialog.lo
> kshortcutdialog.cpp kshortcutdialog.cpp:44:36: kshortcutdialog_simple.h: No
> such file or directory kshortcutdialog.cpp:45:38:
> kshortcutdialog_advanced.h: No such file or directory kshortcutdialog.cpp:
> In constructor `KShortcutDialog::KShortcutDialog(const KShortcut&, bool,
> QWidget*, const char*)': kshortcutdialog.cpp:78: error: invalid use of
> undefined type `struct KShortcutDialogSimple' ...
>   make[3]: *** [kshortcutdialog.lo] Error 1
>   make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui' ...
>

strange...

my only advise: go 3.5.3 - it is much more stable than 3.5.2 ever was.
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[gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Philip Webb]

I just tried to update to "stable" Kdelibs-3.5.2-r6
(having returned everything to the previous GCC 3.4.5 & Glibc 2.4 state),
& it failed with the same lines as when I tried "testing" 3.5.3-r3 earlier:

  /usr/qt/3/bin/moc /z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui/kshortcutdialog.h -o kshortcutdialog.moc
  /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs\
  -3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui -I.. -I../dcop -I../kdecore -I../kio/kssl -I../kjs -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6\
  /work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/interfaces -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\
  2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/dcop -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/libltdl -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.\
  2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdefx -I../kdecore -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdecore -I/z/tmp/portag\
  e/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio -I/z/tmp/portage/k\
  delibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kio -I/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kio/kfile -I/z/tmp/port\
  age/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2 -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -I/usr/kde/3.5/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTR\
  ANT  -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -\
  W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-\
  non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common  -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_N\
  O_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION  -c -o kshortcutdialog.lo kshortcutdialog.cpp
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:44:36: kshortcutdialog_simple.h: No such file or directory
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:45:38: kshortcutdialog_advanced.h: No such file or directory
  kshortcutdialog.cpp: In constructor `KShortcutDialog::KShortcutDialog(const KShortcut&, bool, QWidget*, const char*)':
  kshortcutdialog.cpp:78: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct KShortcutDialogSimple'
  ...
  make[3]: *** [kshortcutdialog.lo] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/z/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/kdeui'
  ...

The other failures reported on the Forum seem to involve 'moc' too :
what is 'moc' & how might it be related to this problem ?

Since I first emerged KDE 3.5.2 , I changed the USE flags in  make.conf :

  USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dri foomaticdb
     gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde
     libwww lm_sensors mime motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly
     nsplugin nvidia opengl pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python
     qt3 readline scanner session slang ssl
     tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb X xml xv zlib"

The flags reported by 'emerge -pv' for 3.5.2-r6 are

  USE="-acl -alsa -arts cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility% -kerberos -legacyssl% -openexr -spell* ssl tiff* -xinerama -zeroconf"

Those for 3.5.3-r3 (slightly different) were:

  USE="-acl -alsa -arts cups -debug -doc -fam% -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility% -kerberos -legacyssl% -openexr -spell* ssl tiff* -xinerama -zeroconf"

It occurs to me that I might not have added back something needed by KDE
(NB I don't have a sound card & long ago removed all sound pkgs).

I am doing this while KDE is running, but that hasn't mattered in the past.

Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ?

Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N>1?  If so, have you tried
"MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge --oneshot kdelibs"?  It should not be necessary,
I thought KDE properly supported parallel builds, but this definitely
looks like that sort of problem.

Otherwise I suggest to post your emerge --info....

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Philip Webb]

060703 Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ?
> Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N>1?

No: I have no MAKEOPTS (that line is commented).

> I thought KDE properly supported parallel builds,
> but this definitely looks like that sort of problem.

That echoes a comment somewhere in the Forum.

> Otherwise I suggest to post your emerge --info....

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.14-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP  2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical"
FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/z/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dri foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde libwww lm_sensors mime motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python qt3 readline scanner session slang spell ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb xml xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[further] (1) I tried adding USE flags "gnome spell" without effect:
those are the only ones dropped since I adopted "-*" ;
(2) I recently added "confcache" to FEATURES : might that affect things ?
(3) I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?

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[gentoo-user] kdelibs : solved ! blame confcache !

[Philip Webb]

060703 Philip Webb wrote:
> (2) I recently added "confcache" to FEATURES : might that affect things ?

I removed "confcache" from FEATURES & KDE 3.5.2-r6 emerged successfully !
I'll try 3.5.3 later after some sleep.

Is confcache considered stable ?  Should I file a bug about this ?

> (3) I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?

I'ld still like to know what it is/does.

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs : solved ! blame confcache !

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:51:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> Is confcache considered stable ?  Should I file a bug about this ?

confcache is package.masked, you definitely should not file a bug about
it.

$ grep -B 2 confcache /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

# Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (25 Jun 2006)
# confcache really needs more work before prime-time
# please don't file bugs for this unless you also have a solution
dev-util/confcache


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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs : solved ! blame confcache !

[Rumen Yotov]

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Hi,
Philip Webb wrote:
> 060703 Philip Webb wrote:
>> (2) I recently added "confcache" to FEATURES : might that affect things ?
> 
> I removed "confcache" from FEATURES & KDE 3.5.2-r6 emerged successfully !
> I'll try 3.5.3 later after some sleep.
> 
> Is confcache considered stable ?  Should I file a bug about this ?
> 
No this is a known issue, that the reason it's been p.masked
>> (3) I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?
> 
> I'ld still like to know what it is/does.
> 
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv"

Hrm, confcache has also been known to cause strange problems, and in
fact is currently package.mask'ed.

Can you try "FEATURES=-confcache emerge --oneshot kdelibs"?

> (3) I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?

I forget what the acronym means (meta-object compiler?), but it is
basically how Qt (and thus KDE) apps convert their user interface
files into .h and .cpp sources.  The idea is that moc is run against a
.ui file, which generates corresponding .h and .cpp sources, which are
then compiled with gcc.

Thus, in a parallel make, another thread could try to use the .h and
.cpp files generated by moc before moc has finished with them, leading
to missing files or undefined type errors.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Philip Webb]

060703 Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> FEATURES=" ... confcache ... "
> confcache has also been known to cause strange problems
> and in fact is currently package.mask'ed.

Yes, as I now notice: it was "testing" when I set it up a few days ago.
Thanks (and to the other 2 respondents) for pointing this out.

>> I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?
> I forget what the acronym means (meta-object compiler?),
> but it is how Qt and thus KDE apps convert their user interface files
> into .h and .cpp sources.  The idea is that moc is run against a .ui file,
> which generates corresponding .h and .cpp sources,
> which are then compiled with gcc.  Thus in a parallel make,
> another thread could try to use the .h and .cpp files generated by moc
> before moc has finished with them,
> leading to missing files or undefined type errors.

Thanks for this partial enlightenment: I will file it away.

So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again.

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Philip Webb]

060704 Philip Webb wrote:
> So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again.

FEI I've successfully updated to GCC 4.1.1 , Glibc 2.4 & KDE 3.5.3 .
The only problem is that Krusader fails, but there's a thread on Forum
& it is predicted that a new version now in CVS will solve things.
While Krusader is fun, I rarely have a use for it, so this is low-priority.

Out of caution in light of recent experiences (smile),
I didn't try 'kdehiddenvisibility', but may have a look at that too later.
Anyone have thoughts/experiences to offer ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/4/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Out of caution in light of recent experiences (smile),
> I didn't try 'kdehiddenvisibility', but may have a look at that too later.
> Anyone have thoughts/experiences to offer ?

I am using it without any issues....although I don't know that I have
seen any benefit either.

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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 03 July 2006 17:20, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ?
>
> Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N>1?  If so, have you tried
> "MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge --oneshot kdelibs"?  It should not be necessary,
> I thought KDE properly supported parallel builds, but this definitely
> looks like that sort of problem.

It does. I usually compile kdelibs with distcc without problems.

Uwe

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