On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:59, Hamid wrote: > Hi > I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0 > In RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop > snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the > application and use it. > But in Debian, I am having hard times with this type of approach. For > example I had to spend a lot of time to figure out why I could not > compile the recent version of "Downloader For X". It turned out to be > that the standard installation of GTK libraries does not install > gtk-config and you have to install it manually. Or for KDevelop it > complains that there is no libqt3 installed but I have the recent > libraries for Qt but they are just the libraries and there is no > "qtconfig" as opposed to RedHat installation of Qt, and I guess that's > why the "./configure" script can not find it. > Well, I know that I can download the Qt tar ball and start from scratch > to get some of these files, but is there a better way ? > My question is : should I tweak all the ./configure files to make them > find my libraries or .... > Any hint and help on this issue is appreciated > Thanks > Hamid > I remember when I first encountered those - I realised that I didn't have the needed corresponding -dev packages installed. When you are compiling software, it does become logical that these functions fit with the headers related headers rather than the binary packages, which have already been through the gtk-config or qtconfig. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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