compiling qt3 - This may help

[James McDonald]

I Installed qt this morning a 3am and made all the mistakes so I wrote this 
for next time.... 
Installing QT-3.0.4 on Redhat 7.2
	Files                             	Location
	qt-x11-free-x.x.x.tar.gz	http://www.trolltech.com

Notes
	The default installs are located in /usr/lib/qt-xxx  

To install the latest version

	unpack the tar.gz file to /usr/local/src/

	tar -zxvf qt-x11-free-3.0.4.tar.gz

	cd qt-x11-free-3.0.4

	# the QTDIR for when you compile is your source directory
	export QTDIR=/usr/local/src/qt-x11-free-3.0.4

	./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4 \
	-thread \  # make sure you set multithread or kde will complain about 
missing libqt-mt.so
	-no-xinerama \ # I don't have multiple video cards /monitors so disable it.
	-system-zlib \ # the rest I am just guessing at don't take my word ask a 
linux god there are quite a few on the list.
	-system-libpng \
	-system-libjpeg \
	-system-libmng

	make

	make install

	ln -sf /usr/lib/qt-3.0.4 /usr/lib/qt # <-- this helps so you don't have to 		
	change environment hoo do when you upgrade

Location of system wide QTDIR environment settings (in RedHat 7.x) 

	If you are looking for where the QTDIR env variable is set in redhat 7.x... 	
	it is in /etc/profile.d/qt.sh or qt.csh if you use the C shell. 

	edit /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
	# Qt initialization script (sh)

	if [ -z "$QTDIR" ] ; then

        		# QTDIR="/usr/lib/qt.2.3.1"

		        QTDIR="/usr/lib/qt"

	fi

	export QTDIR

James McDonald
Tue Jun  4 02:37:24 EST 2002




On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 9:30, you wrote:
> I stuff this up everytime because I have no understanding of the process.
> It is the problem of setting the $QTDIR. I have placed this in .profile::
>
> QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
> PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> But when I go to ./configure it tells me that I have the $QTDIR set
> wrongly.
>
> Waht is wrong, by the way i did this out of the instructions.