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Looks like nobody has built a 2.0.3 install package for Kubuntu Dapper on PowerPC just yet. I'd like to help with that if I can, but I'm a bit of a newbie at compiling from source.
I've managed to get fairly far by searching Google when I hit errors and then installing the necessary dev packages with apt-get, but I've achieved an error that doesn't seem to yield anything helpful even on Google. It happens when I attempt to run make.
I have the latest g++ and gcc packages installed, so I'm not sure just what this is trying to tell me. It seems related to a file called libktorrent.la, but I'm not sure exactly how, because that file seems to be present where it should be, and I can't find any references in it to any file called "now". Before going into too much more detail I should ask the most basic question that comes to mind: Do I need to completely uninstall 2.0.2 before attempting to compile 2.0.3? Could that be the real problem here? With many thanks, Kevin |
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After trying to run make again, here is some of the output from just before the error message block, with arbitrary line breaks added to shorten the longer lines, and blank lines to set off the part containing the word "now":
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I had the same problem when I tried to compile the package for ppc for Fedora Core.
The following patch solved the problem (at least on the build machines, I wasn't able to test if the package is actually working):
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Thanks, liquidat. I'm currently running 2.0.3 after making the change you suggested to the configure file. I don't know why it would make such a big difference to change those two spaces into commas, but at last the wee beastie compiles, installs, and runs successfully.
My method for making the change may not have been exactly proper. I just hand-edited the configure file using kate, then went back to the ./configure step of the instructions. I hope my confirmation that it worked will help encourage someone with more knowledge to create a usable installer package for PowerPC systems. It will probably be a long time before I learn how to do that. Thanks again to everyone helping create and improve ktorrent. Kevin |
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