kdedevelop 3.4.0 compile settings

bgeddy · 05-21-2007, 08:04 PM

I am trying to write applications using C/C++ under KDE with a nice graphical IDE (a bit like Visual Studio but hopefully better !!) After playing with the Slackware 11.0 standard package of Kdevelop 3.3.4 the Kdevelop "build project" menu option errors out with this when tried :-

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*** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60.
*** KDE requires autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or 2.54

I have had other problems after installing Autoconf 2.54 and uninstalling Autoconf 2.60 so I am trying to compile Kdevelop 3.4.0 as I have read somewhere that this version of Kdevelop fixes this. I have downloaded kdevelop-3.4.0.tar.bz2 and extracted all ready to compile this under Slackware 11.0 (not current). The KDE site : http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?f.../download.html
states the following :

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# In order to compile and install KDevelop on your system, type the commands (we assume you have bash shell) from below in the base directory.

    $ export KDEDIR=/where/your/kde3/is
    $ export QTDIR=/where/your/qt3/is
    $ export KDEVELOPDIR=/where/kdevelop/will/be/installed
    $ export KDEDIRS=$KDEVELOPDIR:$KDEDIR
    $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    $ export LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
    $ export PATH=$KDEVELOPDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH

Note: For obvious reasons you should edit the first three lines to match your configuration!
On RPM based linux distributions, you can find the location of your Qt3 and KDE3 directories using the configuration program of your linux distribuition or simply issuing "rpm -ql qt3" and "rpm -ql kdebase3".
If you are a gentoo user and want to use ctags then you need to issue:

    ln -sf /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags /usr/bin/ctags

In order to compile Kdevelop correctly. What should I fill in for the settings :

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$ export KDEDIR=/where/your/kde3/is
$ export QTDIR=/where/your/qt3/is

- with a standard Slackeware 11 install as I'm not sure where my QT3 and KDE directories are ? Do I set "opt/kde/bin" for my KDEDIR and "usr/lib/qt-3.3.6/bin" for QTDIR ? Anyone tried this compilation and if so does it fix the Autoconf version mismatch. -- My reason for doing this is to have a C/C++ graphical IDE to play with application development under Slackware/KDE. I know I can compile C/C++ apps from the command line but a graphical IDE would be nice. Thanks in advance for any input...

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-21-2007, 09:13 PM

For kde it is at '/opt/kde' and qt is at '/usr/lib/qt'.

bgeddy · 05-22-2007, 05:48 PM

Thanks - I have setup the build environment and compiled OK even if it took an age to complete. Uninstalled Kdevelop 3.3.4 and installed newly compiled Kdevelop 3.4 but it still has the same problem i.e. requiring autoconf 2.52/3/4! Oh well, another waste of time...

Update: I have just found a solution to the Kdevelop/Autoconf version mismatch. It is a bit convoluted but seems to work... Marvellous. Anyway, here is a link to a fix if anyone is interested:
http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/in...or_messages.3F
I didn't find this before as I was Googling the error message. Googling "Kdevevelop autoconf" got me this - I must have been too specific in my previous searches. I've just compiled my first KDE app !! Life is good again...

Eternal_Newbie · 05-22-2007, 06:17 PM

Thanks

, I ran into this problem before but never discovered the solution.

bgeddy · 05-22-2007, 10:42 PM

Cool - I was begining to think it was only me that had come up against this 'brick wall'. The solution was pretty obvious to find but I phrased my Google search the wrong way. I have been trying to fix this for a long time and now I'm very pleased I have found a cure. Given - the 'work around' is not an ideal solution but hey - it works !! I now want to setup a way of automating this within Kdevelop so every new project runs a script (maybe) to setup the 'admin' config so it works. All this stuff is pretty new to me so I am enjoying the learning process in a perverse kind of way. Great that I have been some help to you. All the best....