On 12/07/2014 10:18 PM, Jagged O'Neill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 07:31:24AM -0500, E. Liddell wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 01:56:59 +0100 >>> >>> 1. It doesn't say which release this is about. [...] >> >> It was ported from the old wiki, so unless someone's changed it >> recently, it's for 13.X. >> >>> 2. It isn't clear about the build tool to use for the different >>> packages. When talking about the autoconf -> cmake migration, there >>> should be some details of which package in which release is to be >>> done with which build tool, or each package should have a quick note >>> about this in the README or whatever... >> >> "List of Packages Building with cmake" says " Build everything not in the >> list above with autotools." autoconf is part of autotools. >> >> If you think that's unclear, can you suggest a better way to word it? > > No, sorry, I wasn't unclear about that I meant this in conjunction > with point 1.; an Idea would be to make one list for any "initial" > release, and for each subsequent release another list that says > which packages have been migrated to cmake meanwhile. > > (One point why I thought this is all about R14 is that the package > names are given as tdelibs, tdebase, etc., while the package files > I downloaded (from http://copernicus.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/releases/3.5.13.2/) are still named kdelibs, kdebase, etc.) > > Another idea, IMHO even better would be a table, one row per package, > one column per Trinity release, stating the respective build tool to > use as (a)utoconf, (c)make or (m)anual --- just an idea. > >> (That's a sincere question, not an attempt to needle you. The more people >> understand the wiki, the more of them will have a good experience with >> Trinity.) >> >>> No idea if I should attach the error output from a cmake approach. >> >> Do, please, since that's the expected build system for tqtinterface. > > Okay, the logs are from a run in which I passed "-ldl -lpthread -lX11 > -lXext -lz -ljpeg -lmng -lpng" already. There's not a lot missing, > but this makes the error log quite some bytes shorter. > > Thanks a lot! > Jagged > Hi, I do not use Slackware, but at this link you should be able to find additional building instruction for TDE on Slackware. http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=En/trinity_desktop_environment Cheers Michele