Re: Porting KDE3 to IRIX / MipsPro

Hi Carsten,

> I did an IRIX port of KDE3 using gcc. I also tried the MipsPro compiler
> version 7.0 but that one doesn't like the local scope of variables in
> the for (){} loops so I gave up on that.I compiled it on an O2 Irix 6.3
> with SSL,CUPS support.

Unfortunately I have no access to the Origin over the weekend. But I tried
with MipsPro 7.3 and I remember that I added a compile option for this:

  ansi-for-init-scope [ = ( ON|OFF ) ] Enables or disables the ANSI scoping
  rules for for-init declarations (the scope of the name declared extends to
  the end of the for statement). This enables the behavior that is required by
  the C++ standard. The default value is OFF, which is the ARM behavior (the
  scope of the name declared extends to the end of the block enclosing the for
  statement). 

I don't know about 7.0 though.

> I also have some additional  paches for arts autoconfig files to
> correctly include the libaudio.so in the build. It's good to know that
> someone else is out there working on that Irix thing. Does the ksysguard
> stuff work on your maschine ?

Great. I also have this libaudio problems. Ksysguard does also not work.

> Also I had to modify trio.c in the xml libs in order to get it to work.

So far I didn't try with libxml, as I am building on a compute server without
CUPS, SSL, xml, gcc, ...

> I can send you a patch if you need it.

m.camen*at*science-comuting.de  ;-))

> BTW I uploaded my distribution (tardist) to ftp.kde.org.

Yes. I havn't tries your packages as we (science+computing ag) want to tune 
KDE3 for our customers. Moreover we have our own proprietary package format 
which is designed to cover easy adminstration of large heterogenous 
installations. So I have to compile KDE3 myself anyway.

Did you read my mail to kde-core-devel? Did you found a solution to get rid
of all these namespace problems? A simple compiler flag maybe? Oh, I remember: 
you used gcc. Well with quite a number of other _ugly_ changes to the sources 
/ makefiles I now have a working qt / arts / libs / base unsing MipsPro 7.3.
Seems to run quite stable   ;-))

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Marcus Camen