June 2006 Archives

I've gone through a huge number of the java packages I maintain, and updated them en-masse. Besides version updates (and a number of new packages) the biggest change is that I normalized them all to target the 1.4 JDK. When Apple changed the default JDK to 1.5, we ended up with some strange issues because of compiling java code using the 1.4 JDK when some jars have been built with the 1.5 JDK.

A few of them (hsqldb, xerces-j-docs, xalan-j-docs, and I think one or two more) require that you build them with a terminal created by a logged-in user, so ssh'ing in to build, or building in a screen session, could fail. Be forewarned. ;)

If you haven't checked lately, I've been updating my Qt and kdesupport installer packages pretty regularly. If you're interested in trying out KDE4 development, all you need is the Qt and kdesupport packages here, and CMake (2.4.2 or higher).

Things are starting to settle down from the D-Bus move and it looks like things are building pretty well.

I've updated my continuous build systems so that they work again, you can track whether it currently builds on my G4 10.3 box or an intel iMac here.

The KDE4/D-Bus stuff is starting to settle down, and it looks like trunk is starting to regularly build again. It'll be worth seeing if it's stabilized pretty soon.

Also, Peter O'Gorman, Torrey Lyons, and I have been working on getting X.org 7.1 building. Torrey committed a ton of fixes in the monolithic (6.9) tree to fix building with the GL and other changes that happened between 6.8 and 6.9. Now we're trying to get all of that into the 7.x (modular) tree. I've got everything up to the X server packaged in my experimental tree and I've been playing with seeing how things do when built against it. Peter just got XDarwin.app building enough to start up, although it doesn't work yet. Hopefully things will start working soon.

I'm taking this opportunity to work towards making X.org 7.x the "official" X11 of Fink. I've been doing some tests with mixed binaries (some libs linked against /usr/X11R6 and some against /sw/X11) with good results. Eventually, the goal is to transition all X11-using packages in Fink to link against the /sw/X11 tree, and let end-users have whatever X they want in /usr/X11R6 for their runtime. Because of the client-server nature of X11, everything should be able to coexist pretty peacefully. (Stuff linked against /sw/X11 will still run with apple's X11.app and so on.)

In addition, there have been a few general updates released to 10.3, 10.4-transitional, and 10.4:

• KDE 3.5.3 and Qt: but then, you already knew that

• kdelibs, kdebase, kdenetwork: security updates

• KOffice: updated to 1.5.1

• poppler1 and poppler-qt3: updated to 0.5.3

• PostgreSQL: but then, you already knew that :)

• Rose: Rose::DateTime 0.53, Rose::DB::Object 0.731, Rose::DB 0.71

• wv2: security patch

KDE 3.5.3 is in Fink unstable (10.3, 10.4-transitional, and 10.4). It looks like there's an issue with kdenetwork3 building in 10.4-transitional, and a couple of people have reported some strange build errors in kdegraphics3 that I can't reproduce, but other than that I think things are looking pretty good. There aren't really any OSX-specific changes, but a few build system things have been cleaned up.

In other news, the D-Bus branch of kdelibs has officially moved to trunk. This means no more DCOP weirdness on Mac OS X. (yay!) I've put together updated versions of my (universal) KDE4 support binaries that include Qt 4.1.3 as well as D-Bus and it's dependencies. Note that I don't provide a CMake package anymore, you can get Mac OS X binaries from the CMake site.