Re: How to set QTDIR environment variable

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > I'm trying to build pdfedit, which isn't available for Etch. I've already
> > > dealt with some deps (libboost-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev,
> > > libboost-iostreams1.33.1, and libt1-dev), but ./configure is complaining
> > > about the gui about the QT gui as below.
> > >
> > > checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui... yes
> > > configure error: QTDIR environment variable must be set
> > >
> > > I'm sure I've dealt with these QT problems before, but could someone
> > > refresh my memory please as to how to set the QTDIR environment variable.
> > >
> > > Many thanks for any help.
> > Normally you set QTDIR to where Qt is.
> >
> > So incase of qt3:
> >
> > set QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
> >
> > Hugo
>
> Thanks for the help Hugo. I Ran ./configure as:
> ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
>
> This got me a bit further, but now ./configure is complaining again. This time 
> with the following output.
>
> checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui... yes
> configure: QMAKESPEC environment variable is not set
>                                                   - default will be used.
> checking for QT qmake... configure: error: unable to find qmake for QT3
>
> I may have to give up on this. I got pdfedit working on an archlinux install, 
> but when editing a .pdf, it was hitting the redline (99% cpu) , which is why 
> I wanted to try pdfedit on some other distros. I've also got Lenny available 
> on the same drive. I'll have a look to see if pdfedit is available there.

Don't give up.
You just need qmake:

apt-get install qt3-dev-tools

"Qt3 development tools

This package contains all tools that are necessary to build programs 
that are written using Qt3. These are: qmake, uic and moc. For Qt3 
development, you most likely want to install this package. "

Hugo