Issue with acinclude.m4.in's $kde_widgetdir and uic

[Simon Hausmann]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:02:09PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> admin/acinclude.m4.in sets kde_widgetdir=$libdir/kde3/plugins/designer, where 
> libdir=$exec_prefix/lib (=$prefix/lib).
> 
> This is correct as far as it goes. However, typical makefiles run uic -L 
> $kde_widgetdir. When install prefix != kdelibs directory, kdewidgets.so isn't 
> found in this -L path which results in errors like this:
> 
> -----------
> removedlg.cpp: In constructor `RemoveDlg::RemoveDlg(QWidget*, const char*,
>    bool, unsigned int)':
> removedlg.cpp:35: invalid use of undefined type `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.h:17: forward declaration of `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.cpp:36: invalid use of undefined type `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.h:17: forward declaration of `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.cpp:37: invalid use of undefined type `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.h:17: forward declaration of `struct KListBox'
> removedlg.cpp:38: incomplete type `KListBox' does not have member `Extended'
> removedlg.cpp:39: no matching function for call to 
> `QWhatsThis::add(KListBox*&,
>    QString)'
> /usr/qt/3/include/qwhatsthis.h:61: candidates are: static void
>    QWhatsThis::add(QWidget*, const QString&)
> removedlg.cpp:41: no matching function for call to `QGridLayout::addWidget(
>    KListBox*&, int, int)'
> /usr/qt/3/include/qlayout.h:323: candidates are: void
>    QGridLayout::addWidget(QWidget*, int, int, int = 0)
> -----------
> 
> This only happens when ~/.qt/qtrc doesn't contain the right 
> $kdelibsdir/lib/kde3/plugins/designer path in kdeAddedLibraryPaths value, 
> [KDE] section. I'm not sure app is in charge of putting it there, but running 
> kde should do it. In any case, when a Gentoo system is being built, qtrc 
> doesn't even exist yet and so this error occurs. And since we use a sandbox 
> for building apps, we can't automate putting a working qtrc in ~, at least 
> not without breaking our guidelines.
> 
> So - is there anything that can or should be done about this from the makefile 
> etc. pov? I'm not too familiar with the auto* build system, so I don't know 
> if you'll consider this a bug to be fixed. Right now I'm just doing export 
> kde_widgetdir=<correct value> before building and everything works fine.

The question in the first place is why do you use a different prefix
than the installed kdelibs one? :)

Simon