KDE2-kdelibs fails to build | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 5:51 AM

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I'm trying to install KDE2 from the AUR and it fails to compile at KDELibs. Not sure where to proceed..

Here's the output of make: https://bpa.st/SZDA

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I haven't worked with C++ before, so I have zero idea where to even begin with this error. I tried multiple repos, all the same result.

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:48 AM

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ornate ridge I haven't worked with C++ before, so I have zero idea where to even begin with t...

Get me the full compiler cmdline

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It might be a C++ standard issue

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:53 AM

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light seal Get me the full compiler cmdline

I got some help from the Gentoo discord, and I got it to go a little further, lemme put what it spat out

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https://bpa.st/EUBA

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If I can actually get kde2 to work that would be amazing though

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:55 AM

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If you applied any patches please send them to me

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:55 AM

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I changed one file, no patches.

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:55 AM

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While I don't consider myself a C++ programmer I do know some parts of it

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I suspect where the issue might be but I need to be able to reproduce it

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:56 AM

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Kay.

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I'll send you the repo, you'll have to change the line "set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 98)" in kde2.cmake to set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)

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https://invent.kde.org/sandsmark/kde2-kdelibs.git

GitLab

Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark / Kde2 Kdelibs · GitLab

KDE Invent (Gitlab)

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:59 AM

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Exactly what I thought

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:59 AM

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?

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:00 AM

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I've dealt with this issue before, it was indeed the C++ standard

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:00 AM

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ah..

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:00 AM

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Eh, I don't mind having an Arch with KDE2 VM, I'll test it all the way

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:01 AM

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I'm doing this on real hardware lol

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:01 AM

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Just wait a bit, I need to get Debian installed for my OpenVMS-related purposes (about 80% already copied) and then get Arch up

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Then I'll test this

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:01 AM

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kk

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:34 AM

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compiling qt2

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compiling kdelibs now

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:42 AM

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k

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I got KDELibs to compile but kdebase won't configure in it's current state, it doesn't see qt2

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:44 AM

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eh I'm planning on going all the way so hang on until I add some spaces

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:44 AM

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k

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:48 AM

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alright i fixed kdelibs

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now to get makepkg to respect the fix

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fixed kdelibs

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now to kdebase

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:56 AM

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are you gonna lmk how to do this once you get it working?

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:57 AM

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sure

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however it finds qt2 perfectly fine for me

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:57 AM

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odd..

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 7:57 AM

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it breaks itself later

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hm it's breaking in a printf

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lemme add a format specifier, that's c code internals so you're not supposed to understand how these work

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 7:59 AM

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lol

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:02 AM

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wait

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did you install qt2 using the pacman package or manually?

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also use the pacman package for everything

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if you can't get something to work ask me

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:04 AM

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I used the AUR package

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:04 AM

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alright

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send me the errors

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:04 AM

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I uninstalled the AUR version

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:04 AM

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you need the AUR one

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it probably installed into /usr/local where stuff sometimes doesn't get found

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:05 AM

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ah

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I'm doing it from the AUR ig

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when I try to do the mods to KDELibs and rerun yay kde2-kdelibs it overwrites the changes

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:07 AM

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ornate ridge when I try to do the mods to KDELibs and rerun yay kde2-kdelibs it overwrites th...

hang on I'll drop you a way to fix that

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:07 AM

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kk

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:08 AM

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at first you need to NOT use yay, use the manual way for this

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aka makepkg

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:08 AM

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oh

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I've been using yay this entire time :/

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:09 AM

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After manually git cloneing the repo adjust the PKGBUILD's build() function to be like this

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The sed command fixes the first issue

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Point the cp to a local copy of the file causing the second issue, you probably already found how to fix it and thus you can fix it yourself in the copy

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Do you understand?

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:11 AM

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I think??? I'll follow and see if it works

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:11 AM

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Alright

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I'll get back to putting the format specifiers everywhere

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:11 AM

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k

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Kay I'm running makepkg

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:18 AM

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slapped the first patched file into kdebase's PKGBUILD

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now waiting for the second one

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oh and btw did you run makepkg witht the -si arguments?

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because you need them

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:19 AM

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yeh I did, I made a typo in the cp command tho

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:19 AM

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alright

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first issue fixed, now i ran into the same issue but different file

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btw is your locale set to english?

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:21 AM

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ye

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:22 AM

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i am not about to try to find what function it actually expects but i think my workaround only works for ASCII chars

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if you're on english it's all okay

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:22 AM

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I don't have a file named artscbackend.cc

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hmmm

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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ornate ridge I don't have a file named artscbackend.cc

you need to manually copy it out of the source dir and patch it

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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I have it patches

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phone keyboard malfunctioning oh god

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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you might need to specify the direct path to it

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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found it

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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otherwise makepkg looks in whereever is it working rn

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:24 AM

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I was going in the build subdir

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:25 AM

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ugh another printf issue

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hang on i need to figure out what is in the variable this time

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:26 AM

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there we go it's running finally

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 AM

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I hope you're not planning on daily driving KDE2?

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 AM

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I may be?

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ugh issue

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failed to install built packages

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 AM

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I have found at least one issue which may lead to a crash and might have missed a ton more because the compiler doesn't throw warnings at these

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 AM

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ah

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 AM

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ornate ridge failed to install built packages

did you enter the root password?

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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no root password

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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ah

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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I set my user to not need a password

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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it fails because you already installed this

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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o h

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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and thus pacman fails because it thinks it's overwriting local files

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:37 AM

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is there a way to uninstall??

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ah

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any way to force it?

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:38 AM

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ornate ridge is there a way to uninstall??

if you're lucky the build system might have a make uninstall option

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if not you need to look into pacman docs

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:38 AM

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f u c k

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what's the command for a local file?

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:41 AM

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oh look I found a force overwrite

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#"Failed_to_commit_transaction_(conflicting_files)"_error

Pacman

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you'll need to call pacman manually tho

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:44 AM

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hmmm

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:48 AM

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alright I got 14% further but it's still failing

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15 "%s"es later

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still failing...

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ugh was there a format autodetection facility in libc which is now gone, how did this code ever work???

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:04 AM

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ugh my stepdad took my PC away for literally no reason

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:04 AM

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failing at 88%

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:04 AM

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literally none

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:04 AM

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ornate ridge ugh my stepdad took my PC away for literally no reason

RIP

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anyways I'll go write more of these damn format specifiers, they be damned

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:05 AM

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I asked him to "please get out of my room" multiple times because I couldn't focus and he kept on going. I raised my voice a little and he called it "hollering"

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kk

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:05 AM

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there's a VC here...

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want a code fixing livestream?

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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Its 2am for me, I got school at 9, alarms at 6

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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ah

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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I gotta go to bed

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gn ig

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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gn

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I'll put a tarball here when I'm done

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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kk

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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It'll contain the patches, adjust the PKGBUILD for whereever you unpacked it

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:06 AM

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aight

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shouldn't be too hard, I made an AUR folder in my home directory so best case scenario it's as simple as changing the username

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 9:10 AM

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IT COMPILED

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Still not safe, it may just segfault or something when I run it

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@ornate ridge

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Anyways I'll go install every other kde2 package on here

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Then slap all these in a tarball and send them your way

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 10:11 AM

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📎 kde2-collection-by-seal.tgz

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here

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If you still have issues ping me

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Please mark as "solved" if this compiles

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If it compiles but some apps don't work, I can drop you a nice tutorial on how to use gdb but I don't want to deal with that

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I spent an hour adding these damn format specifiers everywhere

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 4:06 PM

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Might be a while until I can test, not sure when I can get my PC back

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 5:18 PM

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bruh my PC wasn't even plugged into the power strip I'm dead

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as a result, he didn't even succeed at his original goal...

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:/

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:05 PM

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okay I have very good news

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kde2-kdebase is finally compiling!!!!!!

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okay I tried to start it and it said undefined symbol

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@light seal https://bpa.st/7LTQ

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:18 PM

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I personally used LXDM

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It worked for me using that

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:18 PM

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ah

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I'll try kdm

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nvm apparently it doesn't exist according to t systemd

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it doesn't start even with a display manager

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@light seal this is a weird issue

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 6:23 PM

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hm

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it worked for me

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anyways i'm tired af

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if you want to try to debug that use nm

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it's a useful tool which prints out library exports

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some pretty advanced debug stuff tho

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 6:26 PM

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k

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okay so apparently the file it's looking in has no symbols???

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used nm to search the file

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nothing

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it's happening in libkdecore-2.so.3

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can you send me your copy of libkdecore-2.so.3?

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it's located in /usr/lib

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I wanna see if that fixes whatever it's complaining about

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:34 PM

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@light seal

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:35 PM

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hang on

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i need to pull up the vm

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:36 PM

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kk

light seal Jul 19, 2023, 8:41 PM

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here's the file

📎 kdelib.tgz

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the actual one, not the symlink because the file you asked for is a symlink to this

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i'ma go to sleep

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and i also figured out why the files have no symbols

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pacman strips debug info during installation like most distros do

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i forgot to mention that makes nm useless since, well, there's no symbol info to read

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and i just remembered that

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 8:46 PM

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ah. where WAS the original file located?

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okay that fixed the errors but kde still won't launch

ornate ridge Jul 19, 2023, 9:13 PM

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added it to my xinitrc and now it launches

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no icons or apps though, wonder why .

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no applets, builtin apps, nadda. is yours like this?

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not even konquerer

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isn't showing anything

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wait the default apps are there

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they aren't in the menus

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weird

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@light seal is this how it looks for you? no applets at all and no way to configure?

light seal Jul 20, 2023, 1:20 AM

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ornate ridge <@514366573973340170> is this how it looks for you? no applets at all and no way...

Mine launched fine with the list intact

ornate ridge Jul 20, 2023, 1:56 AM

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odd

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can you send your .kde2 folder from your home directory?

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need to compare filestructures

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cause when I exited kde one time it had a bunch of errors relating to missing directories and stuff

ornate ridge Jul 20, 2023, 3:18 AM

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and apparently he really doesn't want me to have a computer

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f u c k

light seal Jul 20, 2023, 11:47 AM

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📎 kde2-dotfiles.tgz

ornate ridge Jul 20, 2023, 11:52 PM

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okay so it seems like my install of kde is incomplete

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the .desktop shortcuts don't exist

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I'm gonna reinstall it all

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uhh could you send me the files you personally used to install kde2? untouched, with the pkgs and stuff

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cause I think my pkgs are broken and idk how to fix

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@light seal

light seal Jul 20, 2023, 11:59 PM

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I nuked all the package binary files while I was preparing the sources

ornate ridge Jul 20, 2023, 11:59 PM

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oof

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that's an issue

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its broken for me and idk what to remove from the folders

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I made a user named seal and am now building it

ornate ridge Jul 21, 2023, 12:35 AM

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Kay it's still broken

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I wonder if I'm missing a package

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