./configure --prefix fails

[Chris Thompson]

On August 18, 2003 03:22 pm, Jörg Rüppel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I always installed Gideon into my homedirectory configured with
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/joerg/kdebin
>
> which worked perfectly.
>
> It fails since approximately a week, with this message:
>
> checking for KDE... configure: error:
> in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
> So, check this please and use another prefix!
>
> Is there a way I can install into my homedirectory again without installing
> whole of KDE to it beforehand?
>
> The configure help states:
>
> "You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/kde/cvs' using
> `--prefix', for instance `--prefix=$HOME'."
>
> So this is all about installation directory, not build directory or
> include-dirs. Please help.

Have you tried the following flags:
--with-extra-includes
--with-extra-libs
--with-kdelibsdoxy-dir
--with-kdelibsdoc-dir

?  I'm not saying these will work for you but it is a good first step.