[Kdiff3-user] Binary for Solaris 10 x86, to run with Sun Freeware KDE package?

[Juergen N. <jue...@ne...>]

Hello all,

first thanks to Joachim for providing such a well-designed, soundly
implemented, and extremely useful tool! In particular the three-way
merge is a lifesaver in some situations[1]. Kdiff3 has become *the*
merge tool for our software configuration management.

[1] And it is vertainly helpful that it works exactly like the
three-way merge in ClearCase! :-) (I worked with CC at $work[-1].)

We develop software for and on (among other platforms) the new Sun
Opteron machines (x86 architecture) with Solaris 10. I did not find a
kdiff3 binary for this environment, so I took on to install kdiff3
from source against the Sun freeware packages of QT and KDE. This
turned out to be surprisingly difficult (let me spare you the
details), but I succeeded installing QT from source and kdiff3 against
that.

So we can use kdiff3 without KDE support now, which is already a great
thing (as I mentioned above). But in the meantime we saw that the KDE
version (which I can use with Linux) offers the "Configure Shortcuts"
dialog. As we often have larger merges to do, tuning the keyboard
navigation to our needs would be very helpful.

Does anyone have a kdiff3 binary for Solaris 10 x86 that can run with
the shared libraries of the Sun freeware packages in /opt/sfw? I'd be
willing to create a nest of symlinks or LD_LIBRARY_PATHs as necessary,
but KDE support would be great.

Regards, and thanks in advance,
Juergen.

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Juergen Nickelsen, Software Developer
Netzwert AG, An den Treptowers 1, 12435 Berlin, Germany
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