On 15/01/2012 07:05, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2012 22:21:45 Mike Howard wrote:
>> On 14/01/2012 22:17, Lisi wrote:
>>> On Saturday 14 January 2012 22:09:28 Mike Howard wrote:
>>>>     From a Wheezy point of view, yes, it's not marked as stable, but
>>>> waiting for debian stable is like waiting for a bus on a Sunday.
>>>> Besides, having experienced this build from source of 3.5.13, being
>>>> marked as stable doesn't mean it really is stable. No insult or slight
>>>> intended :)
>>> 3.5.13 is not intended for Wheezy, so will not work on it.  It is at
>>> least reasonably stable on Squeeze.  (I haven't been running it long
>>> enough nor used it often enough to vouch for complete stability!)
>> Intended? Debian wasn't intended for lots of devices but has replaced
>> the original OS in many of them. I just want to stick with TDE _and_
>> want to go with Wheezy.. I can, and have, installed the debs from the
>> Squeeze repository onto a Wheezy box. I'm not in the blame game here,
>> I'm just trying to achieve my goals whilst learning as much as possible
>> along the way.
> Whilst accusing TDE of not being stable:
>
> <quote>
>>>> Besides, having experienced this build from source of 3.5.13, being
>>>> marked as stable doesn't mean it really is stable. No insult or slight
>>>> intended :)
> </quote>
>
.. and my quote is correct, but I never stated that TDE was unstable. 
However, the _stable_ source isn't _stable_ in my view. Let me list some 
examples which are extant regardless of whether I'm using Wheezy or Squeeze;

1. avahi-tqt will not build;

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/data/build.0/avahi-tqt'
Making all in avahi-tqt
make[2]: Entering directory `/data/build.0/avahi-tqt/avahi-tqt'
   GEN    qt-watch.moc3
Qt meta object compiler
moc: Too many input files specified
Usage:  moc [options] <header-file>
         -o file    Write output to file rather than stdout
         -f[file]   Force #include, optional file name
         -p path    Path prefix for included file
         -i         Do not generate an #include statement
         -k         Do not stop on errors
         -nw        Do not display warnings
         -v         Display version of moc
make[2]: *** [qt-watch.moc3] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/build.0/avahi-tqt/avahi-tqt'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/build.0/avahi-tqt'
make: *** [all] Error 2

... same every time.

2. kipi-plugins source requires patching before it will build.

3. aKode source not present but needed.

4. kdeadmin fails to build because it finds and uses the TDE installed 
dummy header, knetworkinterface.h, instead of it's own version. 
kpPty.cpp explicitly includes the system installed utils.h instead of 
it's own version.

5. kdevelop fails to build because the autogenerated listeditor.ui.h 
file includes a reference to App which should be tqApp.

and there's more.

Anyway, I'm not complaining just learning.

Mike.

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