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Re: [trinity-devel] Building kdeadmin

From: Robert Xu <robxu9@...>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:04:38 -0500
Sorry for top posting.
This is where I get stuck: you need a lower autoconf version :( (<2.64)

On Dec 22, 2011, at 1:44, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@...> wrote:

> /dev/ammo42 wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:51:28 -0600
>> Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@...> wrote:
>>> I've been struggling a bit with building kdeadmin-3.5.13.
>
>>> 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?
>
>> Yes, you forgot the --enable-closure option of ./configure that is
>> mentioned as "undocumented but necessary" at
>> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild .
>> Without it kdeadmin-3.5.10 doesn't build on Trinity without the same
>> hacks as yours either.
>
> When I do:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity --enable-closure
>
> I get:
> ...
> Detected TQt4...
> ...
> configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 4.3 and < 5.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
>
> --enable-closure adjusts KDE_USE_CLOSURE_TRUE, KDE_USE_CLOSURE_FALSE and KDE_NO_UNDEFINED.   The first two are not used in kdeadmin.  The third sets the linker to "-Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined". That fixes the need to use LDFLAGS, but it doesn't help detect dcopidl2cpp and dcopidl2cpp.
>
> So:
>
> CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/trinity/include/tqt' \
>  ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity --enable-closure
> make TQTDCOPIDL=dcopidl2cpp TQTDCOPIDL2CPP=dcopidl2cpp
>
> now works.  I suppose I could use:
> export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH='/opt/trinity/include/tqt'
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity --enable-closure
> as an alternative to CPPFLAGS.
>
> And yes, the instructions for 3.5.10 worked fine without hacks:
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/kde/kdeadmin.html
>
>  -- Bruce
>
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