[Konsole-devel] konstruct can't find libpcre building kdelibs on RH8

[Peter Hutnick]

Best I can tell this is the right place for konstruct issues.  If not, I
apologize.

I'm trying to build KDE 3.1 on RH 8.0 using konstruct.  Obviously the RH
packages are bunk and kde-redhat depends on apt (which has its own
problems) and has an intractable dependency chain, which seems odd, since
it is /targeted/ at RedHat.

Anyway, I unpacked konstruct, did "cd konstruct/meta ; make install" and
away it went.  I lost connectivity (AT&T cable went brain dead for half an
hour) so I did "make install" again.

When it gets to kdelibs it says:

configure: error: You're missing libpcre.
Download libpcre from http://www.pcre.org or find a binary package for
your platform.
Alternatively, you can specify --disable-pcre, but some web pages -
using  regular
expressions in Javascript code - will not work correctly, the regexp
support being
quite limited if libpcre isn't present.
make[4]: *** [configure-work/kdelibs-3.1/configure] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/konstruct/kde/kdelibs'
make[3]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdelibs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/konstruct/kde/kdebase'
make[2]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdebase] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/konstruct/kde/kdenetwork'
make[1]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdenetwork] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/konstruct/meta/kmail-crypto'
make: *** [install] Error 2

so I did:

$ locate libpcre
/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0
/lib/libpcre.so.0
/lib/libpcre.so.0.0.1

neither /usr/lib nor /lib were in my /etc/ld.so.conf so I added them and
did ldconfig.  Not sure if that was necessary, helpful, or even makes
any sense, but it seemed like the right thing to do.

Just to be sure I then "rm"ed konstruct, untarred it again and did make
install from meta again.  Same deal.

I'd really like to have everything actually work, but baring that, how can
I pass --disable-pcre to the kdelibs ./configure?

Thanks,
Peter