How to make config realize that yes, qt/source are installed?

Trinity22 · 01-07-2004, 02:05 AM

QT is installed. As is the source files. Yet when trying to configure I get

Quote:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

I don't know what to do. Can anyone tell me what went wrong or what I don't have?

Trinity

vasudevadas · 01-07-2004, 04:07 AM

Don't know exactly, but it might be relevant that I had similar trouble with GTK and Glibc. I had installed it from the Mandrake rpms, but I couldn't compile a piece of software that required it - things were in the wrong places.

I eventually fixed the problem by downloading GTK, Glibc and the dependencies (ATK and Pango) and installing them from source. I was then able to compile the application that used them.

I suggest you do the same: get the newest version of Qt (3.3.0 beta 1) from Trolltech and install it as per the instructions given. Then you might be able to compile your software.

Rinky-dinky-linky: http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/x11.html

MartinN · 01-07-2004, 04:15 AM

You should have a QTDIR environment variable. On my RedHat 8 system, it's value is:

Code:

[root@charlene martin]# echo $QTDIR
/usr/lib/qt-3.1

Regards
Martin

vasudevadas · 01-07-2004, 04:20 AM

If that works for you then forget about my advice.

Trinity22 · 01-09-2004, 11:26 AM

I'm not sure I'd be able to compile a qt when I can't even compile a theme, you know?

As for the suggestion by MartinN. My system fails to recognize that. So not sure what to do with that either.

Still up for suggestions. QT 3.1.2-1.1.9 and QT-devel 3.1.2-1.1.9 are installed according to Synaptic.

Trinity

vasudevadas · 01-09-2004, 12:00 PM

Sure you could install qt - it's just a series of steps to follow. Download the tarball (file with .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 suffix) expand it, and follow the instructions given in the INSTALL file.

Following up on Martin's advice, do you have a directory (or a link) called /usr/local/qt ?

MartinN · 01-10-2004, 12:08 PM

Hi again, Trinity!

I can really feel your frustration, because I felt the same a couple of weeks ago, when I installed QT from source on my VectorLinux machine. The compilation took 48 hours!!

on a Pentium 166.

Anyway, this is what it looks like now, when it works:

Code:

bash-2.05b# echo $QTDIR
/usr/local/qt
bash-2.05b# ls -alF /usr/local/qt
total 284
drwxr-sr-x   19 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:40 ./
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         4096 Dec 24 10:35 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     593          1316 Dec 24 11:28 .qmake.cache
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593          7777 Dec  5 16:16 FAQ
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593          4245 Dec  5 16:16 INSTALL
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593         18361 Dec  5 16:16 LICENSE.GPL
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593          4689 Dec  5 16:16 LICENSE.QPL
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593           694 Dec  5 16:17 MANIFEST
-rw-rw-r--    1 658      593          2751 Aug 11 16:37 Makefile
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593          1142 Dec  5 16:16 PLATFORMS
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593          1405 Dec  5 16:16 README
-rw-r--r--    1 658      593           913 Dec  5 16:16 README-QT.TXT
drwxr-sr-x    2 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:28 bin/
-rw-rw-r--    1 658      593         10131 Dec  4 09:16 changes-3.3.0
-rw-rw-r--    1 658      593         10131 Dec  4 09:16 changes-3.3.0-b1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     593           123 Dec 24 11:40 config.status*
drwxr-sr-x    5 658      593          4096 Dec  5 16:14 config.tests/
-rwxrwxr-x    1 658      593        104619 Dec  4 11:37 configure*
drwxr-sr-x    4 658      593          4096 Dec  5 16:12 doc/
drwxr-sr-x   79 658      593          4096 Dec 21 20:15 examples/
drwxr-sr-x    5 658      593          4096 Dec 21 20:15 extensions/
drwxr-sr-x    3 658      593          8192 Dec 24 11:28 include/
drwxr-sr-x    3 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:42 lib/
drwxr-sr-x   57 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:27 mkspecs/
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     593          4096 Dec 23 17:05 phrasebooks/
drwxr-sr-x    2 658      593          4096 Dec  5 16:13 pics/
drwxr-sr-x    7 658      593          4096 Dec 21 20:25 plugins/
drwxr-sr-x    5 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:27 qmake/
drwxr-sr-x   25 658      593          4096 Dec 24 11:42 src/
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     593          4096 Dec 23 17:04 templates/
drwxr-sr-x   14 658      593          4096 Dec 21 20:13 tools/
drwxr-sr-x    2 658      593          4096 Dec 23 17:05 translations/
drwxr-sr-x   18 658      593          4096 Dec 21 20:15 tutorial/
bash-2.05b#

Hope this helps.

Regards
Martin

slakmagik · 01-10-2004, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Trinity22
I'm not sure I'd be able to compile a qt when I can't even compile a theme, you know?

As for the suggestion by MartinN. My system fails to recognize that. So not sure what to do with that either.

You could try setting it - not sure what you mean by 'doesn't recognize' unless you just mean 'unset' - so 'export QTDIR=whatever-your-qtdir-is'. Echo it to make sure it's set. Then try again. But... compile a theme?