> I've struggeled to compile trinity > (tqinterface, kdelibs, kdebase) from scratch on my gentoo > box using the latest svn. However I've got it compiled > but I'm not quite sure if everything is good. Could you > please post some kind of a howto, including dependencies > issues. the obsolete documentation on the kde website > won't do. > > Trinity starts up fine however my > problem is that the kdesktop seems to give up on X11 after > starting up: > > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > [KCrash > handler] > #5 0x00007f8c58c39495 in raise () from > /lib/libc.so.6 > #6 0x00007f8c58c3a8c0 in abort () > from /lib/libc.so.6 > #7 0x00007f8c58c74ac7 in ?? > () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #8 0x00007f8c58c7a056 in > ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #9 0x00007f8c58c7edec > in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #10 0x00007f8c5a56cf34 > in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > #11 > 0x00007f8c5a56d32c in xcb_wait_for_reply () from > /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > #12 0x00007f8c5a7c8beb in _XReply > () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 > #13 0x00007f8c5a7ad982 in > XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 > #14 > 0x00007f8c568a0e90 in > KBackgroundManager::KBackgroundManager(QWidget*, > KWinModule*) () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #15 > 0x00007f8c568950df in KDesktop::initRoot() () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #16 > 0x00007f8c568946d1 in KDesktop::KDesktop(bool, bool) () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #17 > 0x00007f8c568757b0 in kdemain () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #18 > 0x00007f8c56b278c8 in kdeinitmain () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/kde3/kdesktop.so > #19 > 0x0000000000408f17 in launch(int, char const*, char const*, > char const*, int, char const*, bool, char const*, bool, char > const*) () > #20 0x000000000040a426 in > handle_launcher_request(int) () > #21 0x000000000040ad86 > in handle_requests(int) () > #22 0x000000000040c8da in > main () > > Maybe a howto will point to my mistake. > Otherwise any help would be very much apprechiated. > > Best Regards > Nicolas Have you seen the wiki for developers? http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild Just a few minutes ago I added information to the wiki from my build notes.