Re: kdelibs build problem

["Dr Matthew M Lavy" <mml@mupsych.org>]

Dominique Devriese writes: 

> > Dominique Devriese writes:
> > > Matthew M Lavy writes:
> > > > I would be very grateful for advice on the following: I have just
> > > > upgraded my Debian system from woody to unstable (big hike I know
> > > > :)). All is well, except for KDE. kdeinit fails to start; further
> > > > investigation reveals the following: #kde-config kde-config:
> > > > relocation error: /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol:
> > > > _ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent
> > > This is weird.
> > > > Hmm. So:
> > > > #apt-get -b source kdelibs4
> > > > <snip> In other words, here's my relocation error again.
> > > Yes, I'm not sure why you thought this would fix anything.
>
> > Thought it might be some weird linking error that would magically
> > resolve itself if the same gcc were used on QT and KDE on my
> > system. Evidently I was wrong :)
>
> Yes, I think it is indeed a problem due to your kdelibs and qt not
> being compiled with the same compiler, but your approach to solving it
> was not correct, I think. 
>
> > dpkg -l |grep qt 
>
> > rc libqt3-mt 3.0.3-20020329 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime version).
>
> Can you try to remove the above quoted package ? 
It's not there (hence "rc"); it once was. See below: 

> apt-get remove libqt3-mt

#apt-get remove libqt3-mt
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libqt3-mt is not installed, so not removed 

> The absence of "c102" in the package name seems to indicate that it is
> still compiled with an older c++ compiler, and the link
> /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 probably still points to the library from that
> package.  If you don't want to remove the package, you can also try
> the following: 
>
> cd /usr/lib && ln -sf libqt-mt.so.3.2 libqt-mt.so.3 

Just to be absolutely sure, I purged all of those binaries and re-installed 
wit apt-get install libqt3c102-mt. Still no joy... 


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