Re: make xconfig, libqt3-dev & libqt3-mt-dev
On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:46, Quique wrote:
> Hi,
> I finally decided to jump to the 2.6 kernel branch :-)
>
> First I made sure I had recent releases of make, binutils, etc. Then I
> downloaded, installed and untarred the kernel-source-2.6.8 package.
>
> When I executed make xconfig, I got this error message:
>
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt
Here you can see that the makefile is trying to include the non-threaded qt
libraries. You can edit the make file by hand to make it look for qt-mt,
and it should find it since you've got the package libqt3-mt-dev installed.
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
>
> I did have the Qt libraries installed, including libqt3-mt-dev (version
> 3:3.3.3-2). So far, I didn't have had any problem compiling Qt/KDE
> programs. I checked QTDIR anyway, which was set to /usr/share/qt3 as
> usual.
>
> By googling I found a post from a German user, which experienced the same
> problem a few days ago:
> http://www.debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29911
>
> I don't know German, but I understood he was suggested to install the
> libqt3-dev package. I did, and qconf did indeed launch :-)
>
>
> But:
>
> 1) I had to install libqt3c102 alongside libqt3c102-mt, which seems a
> pityful waste of disk space. (libqt3c102-mt is required by KDE).
>
> 2) libqt3-dev conflicts with libqt3-mt-dev. In order to install it, I had
> to uninstall libqt3-mt-dev and several KDE packages which depend on it
> (kdevelop3-dev, libarts1-dev). This price tag was already mentioned at
> the German forum.
>
> 3) According to the libqt3-dev self description, this package is
> *deprecated*, and should be replaced by libqt3-mt-dev:
>
> WARNING: The nonthreaded version of Qt3 is considered deprecated and
> may disappear anytime in the future. Please use libqt3-mt-dev instead
>
>
> So, why did configuring the latest kernel require a deprecated library?
> I guess I missed something along the way :-( Can you please help?
>
I can't answer that question. I guess there's no way to know which library
you're going to have. I don't think the kernel has a configure script,
which will set options in the make file. If it does, try running it.
> Thanks in advance,
> Quique
>
>
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