I've been struggling a bit with building kdeadmin-3.5.13.
First the instructions on the HowToBuild page are a bit confusing:
1. Regenerate Autoconf/Automake files
cp -Rp <path to your system's libtool.m4 file> admin/libtool.m4.in
cp -Rp <path to your system's ltmain.sh file> admin/ltmain.sh
make -f admin/Makefile.common
Why the -R in the cp command? -R, -r, --recursive all mean the same
thing, but are not really meaningful if the source is a file and not a
directory. I'm not sure the permissions are meaningful either. I'd
just use --verbose.
2. Configure and Build
./configure --prefix=${PREFIX} --sysconfdir=${SYSCONFDIR} \
--libdir=${LIBDIR}
make
This is where I get into problems. I have qt in /opt/qt and Trinity
base in /opt/trinity. Configure fails to find tqt and then thinks it's
version 4. It doesn't find qt and fails. This can be overcome with:
CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/trinity/include/tqt' \
./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity ...
The --with-qt-includes option does not solve the problem, but the
CPPFLAGS can be either before or after ./configure.
Environment variables are:
PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:\
/opt/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:\
/opt/llvm/bin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/xorg/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/trinity/lib/pkgconfig:\
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:\
/opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig:\
/opt/xorg/lib/pkgconfig:\
/opt/xorg/share/pkgconfig
QTDIR=/opt/qt
Then the make fails in several places. What I finally found that works is:
make LDFLAGS='-lqt -lkdecore' \
TQTDCOPIDL=dcopidl2cpp \
TQTDCOPIDL2CPP=dcopidl2cpp
This again tells me that configure didn't do it's job. In the Makefile,
both TQTDCOPIDL and TQTDCOPIDL2CPP are blank. The LIB_KDECORE variable
is set correctly but is not used. LIBTQT_LDFLAGS is set to -ltqt, but
that doesn't do the job.
There are two programs in /opt/trinity/bin: dcopidl2cpp-tqt and
dcopidl-tqt, but they do not work with the input in the Makefile.
I did not have any of these problems in KDE3. Is there something I'm
missing here?
-- Bruce