Sorry, I'm a little confused, so, slackware doesn't have libbfq at all or just demangle.h is missing?

I don't know about "libbfq," but I suspect you meant to type "libbfd." :-) Yes, libbfd is part of Slackware binutils.

As I shared previously, demangle.h is not part of Slackware 14.0 or previous releases. The next official release, 14.1, WILL contain demangle.h in the binutils package.

For my own personal usage, I rebuilt binutils for Slackware 14.0 to include demangle.h. Therefore, technically, I no longer need the tdelibs patch.

I nonetheless can temporarily rename or delete demangle.h to simulate the non-existence of that file and to test any such patch.

The tdelibs patch remains necessary because Slackware is not alone in excluding demangle.h from binutils. Search the dev mail list archives for a previous discussion about demangle.h and affected distros.

When demangle.h is not installed, the recent tdeioslave backtrace support patch in tdelibs will not compile.

The tdelibs patch, and the predessor patch for tdebase, only allows compiling the modules when demangle.h is not installed in the build environment. The patches have nothing to do with the actual bactrace support.

Those folks who compile without those patches merely obtain the ability to compile without demangle.h. When compiled in that manner, those users do not have any ability to produce backtraces from the affected code. Only those folks who compile with demangle.h installed have the ability to produce backtraces from the affected code.

Anyway in a day or two I'll came with a normal patch to move all that to kdebug.cpp and provide WITH_LIBBFD for optional linkage... + some additional backtrace features.

I don't think WITH_LIBBFD is necessary. Only an option WITH_DEMANGLE is necessary, or, in my preliminary draft patch, WITH_TDEIOSLAVE_BACKTRACE. I derived my compile option name from the previous tdebase patch, which uses WITH_KDESKTOP_LOCK_BACKTRACE.

The whole purpose of this discussion is only to patch tdelibs to compile when demangle.h is not installed. Nothing more. Seems the proposed changes to my preliminary draft patch from Slavek are all that is needed. :-)

Darrell