Re: Porting KDE3 to IRIX / MipsPro

On Friday 03 May 2002 14:47, Michael Matz wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Marcus Camen wrote:
> > right now I am porting KDE3 to IRIX using the MipsPro 6.3 compiler on a 1
> > processor R3000 and using the MipsPro 7.3 compiler on a 32 processor
> > (R10k) machine.
>
> It once worked so it shouldn't be that difficult.  Just make sure you use
> the newest MIPSpro compiler.  6.3 is certainly too old.  I don't remember
> exactly which version of 7.3 I used, and don't have our IRIX machines
> anymore.

Yep. It seems to run stable with 7.3 but not with 6.3.

> > Well, I get a number of different compilation and runtime errors. Most of
> > the compile errors can be solved by adding something like
> >
> >   using namespace KParts;
>
> This shouldn't be necessary with a modern C++ compiler.  Please show an
> instance of that problem which fails with 7.3.
>
> Post patches.  We most probably don't want uglyfying patches in CVS for
> the 6.3 version of the compiler.

Yes. This is why I asked. ;-)   Let's take for example 
kdelibs/interfaces/ktexteditor:
The compile errors are always like

    cc-3168 CC: ERROR File = editor.moc, Line = 76
    A name followed by "::" must be a class or namespace name.
    return ReadWritePart::qt_invoke(_id,_o);

My fix / workaround / ugly hack is to modify editor.h

*** editor.h_ori        Fri May  3 18:14:46 2002
--- editor.h    Fri May  3 18:15:44 2002
***************
*** 21,26 ****
--- 21,28 ----

  #include <kparts/part.h>

+ using namespace KParts;
+
  namespace KTextEditor
  {

I know that this shouldn't by necessary with a modern compiler but so far I 
haven't found another solution (maybe moc has to be modified ?). MipsPro 7.3 
seems to be as broken as 6.3.

Well, maybe Carsten Kroll has some ideas? Carsten?

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Marcus Camen