KDevelop & SuSe 6.3

[Rene M�rten]

Am Tue, 30 Nov 1999 schrieben Sie:
> 
> Yes, I too noticed that many binaries that are needed are not included
> in the appropriate RPM's.  For this reason, I try to stay away from RPM's
> and only download source to compile and _install myself_.
> 
> 
> The library that is needed is the gif library from the kdesupport package.
> This package (source) can be downloaded from the kde ftp server,
> and I assume many mirrors.
> 
> AFAIK this library, libgif.so.3.0.0 (as well as the static versions) pertains
> to KDE's support of GIF files and has nothing to do with the UNGIF libs.
> I could be wrong!
> 
> All 'configure' is doing when checking for this lib is compiling a small
> program using a function from this lib (GifLastError()).  If the compile works,
> the lib must be there.  (i'm not a config expert either)  If the library is in one
> of the directories where libs are supposed to be (same place as KDE libs or
> QT libs or X11 libs or glibc libs or ....well, you know), then configure
> (really gcc or ld) will find the lib.
> 
> So.......get the 'kdesupport' source package, compile and install it, and your
> problems have probably only just begun.  Other KDE pre-compiled apps or libs
> may be unhappy with the newly compiled ones or... maybe not.  Watch out for
> the libjpeg in the kdesupport package.  It may overwrite other jpeg/libjpeg stuff,
> especially a file called jconfig.h.
> 
> Good Luck! (Hope this helps)
> 
> -- 
> Robert M. Wheat, Jr.
> belran at worldnet.ibm.net
-- 
Kind Regards

Rene Maerten
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Thanx a lot !!!
i've downloaded the new 1.1.2 kdesupport.tgz and now i got no errors...
the only one is that configure can not found the jpeg-library
how will i find this one ?