On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:21:19 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> On 02/23/2012 05:08 AM, Jay wrote:
> >>  I've built it for 3.5.10 and always with Qt3 only. Which source
> >> are you using? The source I've used is:
> >>
> >>  13969-crystal-1.0.7.tar.bz2
> >
> > After 3.5.13 i couldn't get this source to build. I am using git
> > source 'applications/twin-crystal-style' and under qt3 it builds no
> > problem, but there are errors when trying to use it because the
> > plugins can not be loaded. Tim mentioned the problem was with qt3
> > and he doesn't really want to patch qt3 for this.
> >
> > For this reason i rebuilt everything under tqt3, but the
> > 'applications/twin-crystal/style' git source will not build (re:
> > errors posted in last email). Will keep playing with it and see
> > where it leads. Thanks.
> >
> > Jay
> 
> I'm having the same problem even with Qt3:
> 
> checking for KDE... configure: error:
> I can't find the designer plugins. These are required and should have
> been installed
> by kdelibs
> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
>      Aborting...
> ==> ERROR: Build failed, check /home/david/bld/david/build
> 
> I'll have to look into this later. Unless you solve it first :)
To solve the designer plugins error you can correct the ./configure file
by doing sed 's#$PREFIX/lib/kde3#$PREFIX/lib/trinity#g'. I already built
entire KDE 3.5.10 packages on tdelibs 3.5.13 using this method (but
IIRC I didn't regenerate autotools files but used sed'd configure
directly).