Problems compiling latest kdelibs CVS snaps

[Dawit Alemayehu]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> This is not really a problem for this list, but as it seems many of you are
> working with snapshots of KDE2. That is where my problems are: When I try
> compiling KDE2 I get some problems not finding a file, better said, finding it,
> but using the wrong arguments:
> 
> Concret: It happens during the compilation of qaction.cpp in
> <kdelibs>/kdecore/qk. In file qaction.cpp he complains about using the macro
> Q_BUILDER with only 2 args. Also he can not find a qiconview.h, but this
> problem I've solved partly (I knew where the files lives). Sources are from
> 21st of October midnight middle european time.
> 
> I am using RH6.1, QT 2.0.2, all compilers and tools came with RH6.1, except
> graphical libraries (QT (both 1.44 and 2.0.2), Mesa, Glide) were updated
> manually. QT libs are in different libraries, environment variables for
> compiling are set correctly. I tried to compile under KDE in konsole (with
> su-set for root), KDE should get installed to a different directory as KDE1.1.2
> for parallel use, QTDIR has been set to compiling in the konsole to the correct
> path /usr/local/lib/qt-2.0.2/lib) I took 'til now, no look at the sourcefiles,
> 'cause it should work. I just don't know why it is not working on my machine.
> 
> If someone can help, please feel free to do so.

You need the Qt-2.1.0 cvs-version to compile KDE 2.  You can get the snapshot
from ftp://ftp.troll.no.  My suggestion is that you get the snapshot from
Oct 09, 1999. Some folks have had a problem with the latter versions.  Here is
the link :

ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/snapshots/qt-2.1.0-snapshot-19991009.tar.gz