Re: Re: [KDE-Darwin] Re: SUCCESS: aRts works on HPUX

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, David Leimbach wrote:

> This is all very good news... I don't know that KDE had ever worked on HPUX
> before.  [I could be wrong.]

Well, kde 1.1.2 was working on HP-UX 10.20 ;)

But for KDE 2 onwards: no, it never worked.  It compiled in the past (even
with aCC!), but never worked completely (some things like konsole, and
kicker run, but others like konqui had many problems).  Besides many small
fixable problems there is (or was) one obstacle:  Static constructors
aren't run for shl_load'ed (dlopen equivalent) modules on HP-UX due to the
way they are implemented with g++, and due to the shitty way, those things
are implemented on HP-UX.  It can't be made working without major work in
either collect2, g++ or HP-UX (pick one ;) ).  The effect of that often
are strange crashes somewhere in the program.  Sometimes when loading a
module, sometimes only much later.  Although note, that this was with g++
2.95.x and HP-UX 10.20.  Maybe they changed it to be sane in 11.00 (I
doubt that), or g++ has the ability to make it work meanwhile (I can't
test).  I.e. I wish you luck with this ;)


Ciao,
Michael.