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Re: [trinity-users] Trinity on OpenBSD?

From: gregory guy <g-gregory@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:39:18 +0100
> Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2018 schrieb Hawke R:
>> Greetings,
>> I have been very happy to be using Trinity for the past year. Though not a
>> Debian fan, at least Trinity has given me back the much more productive
>> KDE3 experience (compared to other DE's), and has run very well. So much
>> better than the other DEs.
>> I see that there was an announcement of a partial port to FreeBSD in 2016.
>> Has anyone made any effort, or better yet had any success, with getting
>> Trinity running on OpenBSD? Is it even remotely possible for an end-user to
>> make the existing source work on OBSD? Or is it only possible if developers
>> put in the effort?
>> I have setup a VM with OBSD to try, but before wading in would appreciate
>> knowing if it is even remotely possible and any pointers for resources to
>> get started doing so on OBSD.
>> Thanks kindly!
>> -Hawke
>>
> Hi!
>
> I build my FreeBSD stuff from this git repository (FreeBSD is in the r14.0.x branch, not master): https://anonymous@.../scm/git/tde-packaging
>
> There's also a openbsd folder in there, but that says "14.0.0". I suggest you just clone the repository and try to build on OpenBSD. No matter if it fails or not, please come back here and post your findings :-)
>
> Nik
>
As suggested by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp, you should give this a try, Fran�ois 
made those ports for OpenBSD and I'm craving to know whether if they 
still work or not.

Regards.