Newbie Question: Setup on RH7 for development

[Roland Krause]

I think, 

you are getting a little too far out there. 

There is *no* need to upgrade a kernel or upgrade XFree86 or anything
like that. Version kdevelop-1.4 the cvs version of yesterday runs on my
Solaris box which has never seen a Linux kernel nor an XFree X-server. 

If you have a stable Linux box, dont f.ck with that for no reason. I'd
suggest you install everything into a local directory with no
sideeffects to the distribution. Just use something in your
homedirectory for it or /usr/local. This will guarantee that nothing
gets overwritten. Dont work as root then you cant damage things. 
Just decide on one directory where your development tree will install
(e.g. /usr/local/qt2 /usr/local/kde2) and then stick with it. 

In one month or so you will be able to buy Mandrake-8 which comes with
KDE-2.1 and Xfree-4 and 2.4.2 and on and on for 3 bucks on cheapbytes.
No reason to waste hours resolving dependencies. 

Get the tarballs for KDE-2.1 and qt-2.3.0.
Unpack and compile qt-2.3.0. If you dont have Xft, and you havent
missed at yet, there is no reason to compile it for Xft. Run configure
--help, read the INSTALL and README files, it will tell you everything
necessary to build qt-2.3.0. 
A tip, if you dont have any KDE-2 installed yet, then qt-2.3.0 will not
build with the -kde option. Disable it, bootstrap the bitch and then
recompile the sucker. 

Unpack all the KDE-2.1 packages you want, you need a minimum of 
kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase but as soon as you have that you want to
probably get the rest also.
Unpack, configure, compile and install these one by one. 

IMPORTANT: to get this all to work properly you need to set QTDIR to
your new directory where you decided to install qt2 and KDEDIR to the
appropriate directory where you decided to install KDE2. 

After that I strongly recommend cervisia. You can tell cervisia to
checkout from the kde cvs server. You can even ask it to fetch a list
of available modules. Then get the CVS sources for the KDE_2_1_BRANCH
tags with cervisia, it is really simple. Finally get the kdevelop
versions from CVS, your best bet will be to get one stable version to
work out of (KDE_2_1_RELEASE), a current 1.4 (KDEVELOP_1_4) version and
the HEAD version. Also the KDEVELOP_1_4 version is also pretty stable
already, just remember to keep one version to actually work with. 

Regards
Roland, who thinks that most distributions have become quite
proprietary these days

--- Jonathan Gardner <gardner at sounddomain.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Giorgi Lekishvili wrote:
> > > > Xfree86 4.0.2,
> 
> Talk about a bear to install. I went to www.xfree86.org and they want
> me to
> run their special little installer program. Okay, no panic, just
> weird.
>

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--
Roland Krause
In the garage of life there are mechanics and 
there are drivers. Mechanics wanted!

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