QT Install problems

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:47:24 -0400
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> I think the consesus is that a 'make install' is not required. That 
> being said, you need to make sure /etc/ld.sod.so.conf.conf contains 
> '/usr/lib/qt3/lib' (or whatever directories contain the qt3 libs), then 
> run ldconfig to update the libraries once qt3 is installed. 
> Alternatively, you can create the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> (read this, http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html) and set it to include 
> the path to the qt3 libs.

I think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is by far the best way to do this. This applies
when you compile KDE as well! That way the binaries will find their parts no matter
what /etc/ld.so.conf contains. When compiling KDE, add the KDE library
directory as well as the QT directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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