Greg,

Had similar probs but got KDE2 this way. Here is my
complete how-to...

http://om-ah-hum.com/share/gus_netbsd_too-big_pkgsrc.html

Enjoy,

Gan

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> "Joseph N Reed" writes:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > i'm currently running NetBSD 1.5.1 on an i386 and tried installing the curren
> > t
> > kde2 (v2.2.1) from /usr/pkgsrc/x11/kde2  however, when it gets to the kdebase
> > 2
> > package, i get the following errors:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/crt0.o: In function `___start':
> > /usr/lib/crt0.o(.text+0xc1): undefined reference to 'main'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > gmake[3]: *** [kicker] Error 1
> > gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/x11/kdebase2/work/kdebase-2.2.1/kicker'
> > gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/x11/kdebase2/work/kdebase-2.2.1/kicker'
> > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/x11/kdebase2/work/kdebase-2.2.1/'
> > gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 1
> > 
> > did i miss something in the upgrade?  or is this pkg broken?
> > if i missed something, what?
> 
> Something is unhappy... for me, I needed to:
> 1) cd pkgsrc/x11/kdebase2/work/kdebase-2.2.1/kicker
> 2) edit 'Makefile', changing:
> 
>  kicker_LDADD = $(LDADD)
> 
> to
>  
>  kicker_LDADD = kicker.la
> 
> 3) do a 'make'.  Discover it gets further, but now dies in 'proxy'.
> 4) 'cd proxy'
> 5) 'make appletproxy.moc'
> 6) 'make extensionproxy.moc'
> 7) 'cd ../'
> 8) 'make'.  Discover it dies in 'taskmanager' now..
> 9) 'cd taskmanager'
> 10) 'make taskmanager.moc'
> 11) 'cd ..'
> 12) 'make'
> 13) discover more problems similar to above. repeat similar steps till all of 
> kicker is built.  Somewhere along the way a 'make conf.h' is needed too...  
> 
> There are probably 20-30 .moc files that need to get built.. I'm guessing 
> there is some trivial change needed to the automated Makefile creation, but
> I don't pretend to (nor want to!) understand KDE Makefiles :)
> 
> [as of right now the rest of kdebase2 is building.. with any luck I'll have it 
> all built by sleeptime :) ]
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster
> 
>