Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto

If the build fails for any user still using any "hacks", including -fPIC -DPIC in CFLAGS and any custom LDFLAGS, please remove all the "hacks" and rebuild amarok.
Ever since the libmysql shared-lib patch for mysql-5.0.76-r1 and mysql-community-5.0.77-r1, amarok should be able to build against mysql with plain CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" and --as-needed is being forced on amarok since 2.2.0.

I'm still unable to get a working collection in 2.2.0 with mysql embedded, I suppose #1 is about the same issue :/
The collection is desperately empty.
I run ~amd64, the fPIC and the ldflags workarounds didn't fix it.

amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database selected on
(and so on, and so on, and so on)

What MySQL issue? Are you sure it's not the binutils issue?

Any chance investigating the MySQL problem a lot of us are seeing in 2.2.1?

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KDE4 has _very_ poor compiz builtin support. I have an issue on my laptop in KDE4 where if I open konsole and maximize it, than close it and reopen it will start in full screen mode. Same for Konqueror and same for Kmail. This is a bogous and very annoying habbit ONLY when KDE4 has compiz enabled. I had to mask (in gentoo) kde4-meta and recompile kde3 from the beggining. I hope KDE4 will start being usable some time soon with compiz enabled. Since then I rather have the old KDE3 back up and working with compiz enabled. I never had this stupid issues with the old KDE3 and compiz. It's driving me nuts.

Any chance KDE4.x will be un-keyworded anytime soon?

I found cairo-dock-plugins-1.5.2.1. x86 build in sabayon overlay and unfortunately it crashes now and then with segmentation fault. Cannot try other versions since it is for other architecture

compiz with kde4? wouldn' t that be overkill since kde has compiz features 'built' in?
use flag kde for compiz in package.use - does that
integrate more compiz effects into kde-4?

It's not my main point, but just FYI,
if try to install it from enlightenment WM.
it'll get installed into
/usr/share/e16etc
/usr/share/e16usr
/usr/share/e16var

I'll file a bug report and it'll be fix, I'm sure

@Anton: kdeprefix is not broken. I think it has been dropped for good reasons.

I may be too conservative but I don't like KDE4: it seems
a big heavy on my 4years
old laptop, compiz is an overkill for KDE4 and
kdeprefix seems broken.
I'll give up my 5 years love and move on to Gnome if
3.5 slot won't work any longer.

ps. the width of textfield in this comment's form is too
wide and I can't see what I type in firefox 3.5

What are the changes of KDE 4.2 making it into the stable branch?

The gentoo mysql ChangeLog shows it was added 12 Apr.
*mysql-5.0.76-r1 (12 Apr 2009)

12 Apr 2009; Robin H. Johnson
+mysql-5.0.76-r1.ebuild:
Bug #238487, lots of patching fun to enable building of a shared embedded libmysqld for Amarok.


To get amarok 2 run something like:

sudo emerge autounmask
sudo autounmask dev-db/mysql-5.0.76-r1
sudo autounmask media-sound/amarok-2.0.2-r3
sudo emerge -DuaN amarok

* Its building now on my system now. Not sure if I'll have to rebuild kdelibs or set any USE flags before it will work.

Thanks for making this patch possible.

RealNC,

It will when it's ready :)

R

When will this hit the tree? It's 7th April and still no sign of it in Portage :P Or KDE 4.2.2 :P

You did a very good job.

Thanks for taking the time to find a real solution for this problem.

Let's party now !

Good job...2 months of struggle, but you got it done. Thanks to everyone.

Many thanks for your work!

*digital hug*

I'm anxious to have my music in Amarok again!