Re: Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

Scarletdown <gsutton9503@wavecable.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 22:29, Roy Pluschke wrote:
>>
>> then configure with   ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3
>
> And that gave the same error as before:
>
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) not 
> found. Please check your installation!
> For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
>
> Here's what config.log shows
[...]
> configure:5840: rm -rf SunWS_cache; c++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions 
> -fno-check-new -I/usr/local/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include  
> -D_REENTRANT  -L/usr/share/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib   conftest.C  -lqt 
> -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg  -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE  -lresolv 1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt

Broken.  It should be linking against qt-mt.  You could install
libqt3-dev and link against qt, but it would be better to really link
against qt-mt.  Either hack the configure script, or if you're feeling
daring, do:

  # cd /usr/lib && ln -s libqt-mt.so libqt.so

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