Trouble with KFile

[Bernd Gehrmann]

On Monday 06 May 2002 19:49, you wrote:
> I've been trying to get a copy of KDevelop (2.1 and Gideon) working for the
> last week. I've finally got a build of 2.1 that works (hooray!), after I
> rebuilt my KDE3 desktop from the release sources rather than the HEAD tag,
> and then did the same for KDevelop 2.1. Gideon continues to elude me -
> check the error below:
>
> **** BEGIN ERROR ****
>
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/kdevelop'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lkfile
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[3]: *** [kdevelop] Error 1

kfile doesn't exist anymore in KDE 3, the classes that it formerly 
contained are now in kio.

I wonder what the kdevelop directory above is. If it's the subdirectory
just below the toplevel one, you do not need it for gideon (you can
also disable it completely with --disable-kdevelop).

Bernd.