On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:49:33PM -0700, Josh Hansen wrote: > >What is the status of KDE3 ? I personally don't need it, but a > co-worker was asking. > > So far I haven't gotten it to work. Problems with the DCOP server mainly > - I think it may not be working with ICE properly. I tried building > debug-enabled packages of qt3, arts, kdelibs, and kdebase, but when I > loaded a binary file into gdb it said that no debugging symbols were > found. So that sort of stymied my efforts for a bit. Also, kde > applications give the error of "BadCursor" or something like that - I > can't remember exactly and I'm not on my opteron box right now. > > Maybe somebody else has had better luck? At any rate, is there anything > special that needs to be done for debug-enabled builds of kde aside from > setting the debian build flag ="debug" ? Just use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip" as documented in debian policy. You may also want to use "noopt" as well. "debug" is the old pre 3.5.7.0 (Aug 2002) way of doing it. If that doesn't work let me know. Chris
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