[SOLVED and Q's] Re: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS'

2003-06-04 Thread Ross Boylan
The error (see below for details) was caused by the interaction of two things: 1) I have various generations of the gnu auto tools on my system 2) The admin/detect-autoconf.sh script in KDE prefers older versions of automake (see checkAutomakeAclocal). So although I installed automake 1.7, and

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:51:34AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > >> This was my understanding as well. As I understand the situation, -fPIC > is > >> preferable to the non-PIC code which was there before. > > > >It's not quite that simple. This is about static libraries, which policy > >requires to b

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 23:05, Frank Van Damme wrote: > ...which brings up the question: wtf is PIC? :) [P]osition [I]ndependant [C]ode. On x86 it is a little bit slower than normal code since the data section is accessed using the ebx register as index. The result is that the compiler has less po

Changing keyboard layouts (repost)

2003-06-04 Thread Tal Eisenberg
Not being aware of the "thread-steling" thing before, I'm reposting my message on a new thread (I hope it's okay...) I'm using kde 3.1.2 with kxkb setup for hebrew and english. I just bought a new keyboard with some extra buttons (play, stop, etc.). I've created a xmodmap file to get the keys w

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:25, John Gay wrote: > > >> And why are static lib's being linked into shared objects? > > > >Because some shared libraries (or plugins, or whatever) use some X > >extension libraries which are only available in static form. But non-PIC > >code in a shared object is a bad i

kvim/vimpart on ppc

2003-06-04 Thread Gurujiwan Khalsa
Hello, I'm new to KDE. I started using it specifically because I want to use kvim & vimpart (on my powerpc running woody with KDE 3.1). After a fruitless search for debs for my platform, I attemped to compile kvim. After reading through the Makefile, setting things to what I think is appropriat

Re: kvim/vimpart on ppc

2003-06-04 Thread Mickael Marchand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, there are kvim and vimpart debs for woody on http://debian.freenux.org ;) (look at http://freenux.org for apt lines) sid already have them (kvim and libvimpart0) cheers, Mik Le Mercredi 4 Juin 2003 20:02, Gurujiwan Khalsa a écrit : > Hello, >

Re: kvim/vimpart on ppc

2003-06-04 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 19:02, Gurujiwan Khalsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] >checking for xmkmf... /usr/bin/X11/xmkmf >checking for X... no >checking if X11 header files can be found... no >checking --enable-gui argument...