Re: 2.2r1

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, James D. Freels wrote:

> Right now I am just trying to help an alpha-linux friend across the
> world to get kde1 running on his alpha.  This ia a problem for new
> Debian users since kde2 has not been released nor ported to alpha yet.
> 
> As it turns out, I had a Debian 2.1 (slink) alpha CD under my nose and
> e-mailed the package to him.  We'll see how far he gets.

Ok.  It's not that KDE2 isn't ported yet, it's more of a compilation
problem with Qt 2.2.  Seems that binaries linked against it are
segfaulting on exit, which is unacceptible.  I just got word that one of
the gcc snapshots might solve this, so I'm waiting to find out which one
so that I can isolate the fix and perhaps backport it.

Qt 2.2 has been the bane of my existance for quite awhile now.  I know it
seems that nobody is working on it, but I assure you that I work on trying
to figure out the problem at least once per day.  As soon as we resolve
the situation, you'll definitely start seeing KDE packages being uploaded
:-)

C