I'm trying to install KDE3.1 from source, I have installe QT, arts, kdelibs....every thing went fine. However kdebase is not going as well.

I run ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde-3.1 --disable-dependency-tracking --with-shadow......this goes without a hitch, but make gives me the following error

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/kate/interfaces'
/opt/qt/bin/moc ./application.h -o application.moc
/bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/opt/kde-3.1/include -I/opt/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o application.lo `test -f 'application.cpp' || echo './'`application.cpp
In file included from ../app/katemainwindow.h:26,
from ../app/kateapp.h:28,
from application.cpp:33:
../app/kateviewmanager.h:26:23: kate/view.h: No such file or directory
../app/kateviewmanager.h:27:27: kate/document.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../app/kateapp.h:28,
from application.cpp:33:
../app/katemainwindow.h:28:23: kate/view.h: No such file or directory
../app/katemainwindow.h:29:27: kate/document.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../app/kateapp.h:29,
from application.cpp:33:
../app/katedocmanager.h:24:27: kate/document.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [application.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/kate/interfaces'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/kate'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2


it looks like it is looking for the files view.h and document.h
not sure where to go from here

BTW I have been using the books from Linuxfromscratch to build my system


any advice would be helpful

I don't think it's a good idea to use --disable-dependency-tracking.
Maybe your problem is a depency problem but you haven't got error before because it was not searching for unmeet deps.

Thanks for the suggestion, it seems to have worked.

Now it's giving me this error

make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/doc/khelpcenter/faq'
/opt/kde/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
index.docbook:1: validity error: Element acronym is not declared in trademark list of possible children
&RedHat; systems, 3 on &SuSE by editing your
^
make[4]: *** [index.cache.bz2] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/doc/khelpcenter/faq'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/doc/khelpcenter'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde/kdebase/kdebase-3.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2


I ran ./configure --with-shadow

Any ideas?

John

first, do make clean in kdebase, kdelibs and arts. You should never compile something without tracking deps, because you have done it before, there's maybe something bad in package you think that are working. So do "make clean" to everything (but watch out, this will probably kill your running version of Kde too) except maybe QT, but make sure you have used option KDE tell you to use with QT... or a better idea is to get the package of your distribution for QT, since it's often a source of trouble.
Then, start back from the beginning but only use "./configure" . Kde should find your deps (and warn you if something important is missing) alone. you probably don't need to use "--with-shadow" since the configure script should be able to detect if you're using shadow or not.

By the way, what's your distribution?

Thanks I'll give that a try....

I don't really have a distribution, I used RH 9 to make my linux. I followed a book on the web 'Linux from Scratch'. I'm trying to learn linux....the hard way....hehehehehe

John

I tried the make clean in arts, kdelibs, and kdebase. recompiled and still getting the same error as my last post......

hum.... What's your gcc version?
and do you have libbz2 installed? it seems to give you an error when trying to read a bunziped file (tar.bz2).

gcc 3.2 is installed and yes libbz2 is installed

John