GNOME or KDE on AIX??

[Bernard Chandler]

Chun Fong wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Did anyone get GNOME and/or KDE working on AIX 4.3.x ???
> If so, please email me how you did it??? I would really appreciate it..
>
> I'm currently stuck on getting GNOME to work...
> and those GNOME folks dont' have a AIX machine to debug on.... ( seems
> like )
>
> Thanks
> CHF

you may be looking a little backwards. that's like saying has anyone got
their motorcycle engine in the dump truck yet.
KDE was made for the people who could not afford the commercial CDE.
Configuring CDE: The Common Desktop Environment
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131027247/webviator/002-7491712-0608224

GNOME is fun on linux. However it is extraneous to unix systems.

--
Bernie Chandler
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[Gary R. Hook]

Bernard Chandler wrote:

>
> Chun Fong wrote:
> > Did anyone get GNOME and/or KDE working on AIX 4.3.x ???
> > If so, please email me how you did it??? I would really appreciate it..
>

> you may be looking a little backwards. that's like saying has anyone got
> their motorcycle engine in the dump truck yet.
> KDE was made for the people who could not afford the commercial CDE.

What an interesting concept. KDE is a window manager, but IMHO hardly
intended to be a poor-man's version of CDE.

> GNOME is fun on linux. However it is extraneous to unix systems.

Another interesting concept. Desktop environments are hardly
extraneous to Unix systems, I think. Again, IMO.

Try looking at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde/ for comments on building
KDE
on AIX. Haven't done it myself, but I believe it's possible. Also, the
new
CSet++ compiler (version 5) includes the STL which I believe is
required.
YMMV.

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[Mike Stevens]

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> Hello,

>
> Did anyone get GNOME and/or KDE working on AIX 4.3.x ???
> If so, please email me how you did it??? I would really appreciate
it..
>

> I'm currently stuck on getting GNOME to work...
> and those GNOME folks dont' have a AIX machine to debug on.... ( seems
> like )
>
> Thanks
> CHF
>

I haven't actually started a Gnome desk top, but I have gotten large
parts of it to compile using gcc 2.95.2. It seems to need to be linked
statically (./ configure --disable shared --enable static).

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-Mike Stevens
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