compiling kde3

[Pam R]

On Sunday 10 March 2002 6:04 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Sunday 10 March 2002 02:32 pm, you wrote:
> > I have libxml2.so linked to libxml2.so.2.4.1 in /opt/kde2/lib
>
> Yes I did that, but that was not what stopped me, got confused on what I
> was installing. I had to install libxslt 1.0.7 or better for the kdelibs
> help, did that but kde still would not see it.
>
> > I've been able to compile KDE3 from CVS, but haven't tried in in 4 or 5
> > weeks, but I seem to recall needing to compile kdesupport from CVS. I
> > mostly followed the instructions on the KDE web site. I'd dig up the
> > link, but it's late here and I'm about done for the night :-(
>
> No what I did I downloaded the rc1 which went up last Tuesday I think.
> Did follow the instructions but it karks it with cannot find: -lpcre : have
> no idea where to find this, locate cannot see it but can find a pcre. What
> is significant with the -l part.

You neeed to compile the kdesupport package first, it contains up to date 
versions of libpcre, libxml and libxslt. In fact the order for compiling 
things has changed a bit, it is now 
kdesupport
arts
kdelibs
kdebase
kdeaddons
...

>
> Hell! I went to check and RC2 is now up there, too damd quick I think that
> the final witll be in the next 10days.
>
RC2 is strange - it is there but they are still bugfixes going in to it, so 
you may want to wait for the official release announcement to make sure you 
get the best possible.  And there is another gotcha, you now need to have 
upgraded autoconf to at least 2.5, libtool to 1.4.2 and some people say that 
automake should be >= 1.5 although I am still using 1.4 without any apparent 
problems so far.

Pam
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