compiling kdevelop fails

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi,
I'm using KDevelop 0.4 with SuSE 6.0. I compiled myself KDE 1.1.1 and Qt 1.44
with egcs 1.1.2. It works fine. I'm using libpng 2.1.0.3.
But I think your problem could be caused by the wrong version of libpng or a
badly  created makefile.
Please check if _every_ makefile of KDevelop contains the entry -lpng. If not
please add it either to the line LIBPNG or to the compiler-switches. You've to
add "-lpng -lz -lm".
Please try also to add -ljpeg or -ltiff.

I think it could be useful to use the newest release of libpng. It's at
this time 2.1.0.3. But if you compile libpng yourself please exclude libpng
from the installed packages in Yast because SuSE uses /usr/lib for storing
libraries.


> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry I can't help you, but I would like to mention that the problem
> must not be only with SuSE, as I'm using Redhat 6.0 and am hitting the
> very same wall. configure does not find libpng and adding it to the
> Makefile doesn't seem to help (I'm a complete newbie, though). When it
> links the object files, -lpng is not specified.
> 
> Hopefully someone out there can tell us how to fix it!