Can't compile KDE app

[Ralf Habacker]

On Friday 19 March 2004 11:37, Ralf Heydenreich wrote:
> > This mcopidl will not work and it isn't required to have a working
> > mcopidl.  Simply use a symbolic link for this
> >
> > ln -s true /opt/kde3/bin/mcopidl
> > ln -s true /opt/kde3/bin/artsc-config
> > Ralf
>
> This didn't work, too. I found a binary distribution from slackware, which
> works. Now I have another error message:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lutilcollect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I've googled and found a similar problem. Ralf meant to install inetutils.
> But they _are_ installed. I don't know _what_ the linker doesn't find,
> anyhow. Can someone give me a hint how to fix this problem?

try 

ls -l /usr/lib/libutil.a 


this file must be present 

if not see 

zcat /etc/setup/inetutils.lst.gz 

it must show libutil.a 
if not libutils isn't installed propper. 

Ralf