[kde-linux] compiling KDE from source

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Friday 19 September 2008 20:17, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2008, Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> > On Friday 19 September 2008 11:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 September 2008, KW Armstrong wrote:
> > > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0)
> > > > (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
> > >
> > > Yes, exactly!
> > > As the check above indicates, it needs at least Qt 3.3 and anything not
> > > 4.0 yet.
> >
> > I'm not sure that's what the error message says; why should the program
> > complain about "(library qt-mt) not found" if Armstrong didn't have an
> > acceptable version of Qt?
>
> The configure test complains about not finding Qt in an acceptable version,
> detailing which variant of the library it was looking for (qt-mt)
OK, you probably know better.
>
> > > Easily solvable by installing Qt3 and its development files (e.g.
> > > headers)
I second that.
> >
> > I belive Qt3 is installed, but not the qt-mt (multi threading) version.
Oops, I didn't reflect enough on that, the problem is with the dev-files, see 
my next comment.
>
> While this might certainly be possible, I haven't seen any distribution
> with the non-threaded Qt in years, especially since KDE as one of the main
> Qt using projects depends on the threaded one.
I had to install the Qt developpment files a few years ago, first 3.? the 4.0
(I'm no programmer but I wrote a few programs just for fun)
IIRC in both cases I had to specify if I wanted it threaded. 
AFAIK distros come with the libs to run Qt programs, but not necessarily with 
all that is necessary to compile from source.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
My apologies for the noise.		Perry

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