On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, J M Oldak wrote:

> I wrote:
> > >I was considering embarking on an installation of KDE on my RiscBSD 1.3
> > >computer. I was wondering if either anyone had some compiled binaries I
> > >could use rather than compiling it all, or if anyone had any suggestions
> > >as to compiling/installing/using it.
> 
> Miles wrote:
> 
> > If you're happy with KDE beta2/Qt 1.31 then build the stuff using the
> > NetBSD package system. It makes building and installing as simple as,
> > 
> > 	cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/kde
> > 	make
> > 	make install
> 
> ...which is all well and good if my NetBSD computer were on the internet.
> Unfortunately it aint, so I guess I'll download the source from
> www.kde.org and compile it 'normally'...

Be warned it takes a long time to compile on a SA, probably somewhere in
the region of a few hours, and you need to be running a sh derivative,
some of the scripts are run using the $SHELL variable, which is annoying
as they are sh scripts and don't work with csh.

Chris