I'm running my Mandrake Linux 10.1 RC1 x86_64 box with KDE 3.2.3 and QT3.3 as I recall. I've tried to compile KDE3.3.1, but the configure scripts didn't see the qt-mt libraries.

Yes, I have the lib64qt3-devel rpm installed and yes, pkgconfig --list-all lists the qt-mt package. I've created symlinks called libqt-mt.so where it seemed it was missing (aka /usr/lib/qt3/lib64 and /usr/lib/qt3/lib), but it didn't work. I ran ldconfig a thousand+1 times agf\\fter every try, and still no luck.

So, I quit trying to use the provided RPM, and got the latest free qt-x11 package and I started recompiling everything. The konstruct took care of doing the right stuff.

Right about the middle of the compile, when it was about time to link the files, BOOOm, library Xrender not found :O. That's from Xorg, right? Doesn't matter, as it seems a replay now.

What can I try to get it to compile everything all right? I'm thinking it's because I have lib and lib64 dirs (for the libs compiled with 32 and 64 bit),, but I'm stuck now...


edit: I'm using -march=athlon64 option for gcc/cc

As with all software, you need to install the dependencies before compiling it. In this case, you're missing the libXrender-devel package; this probably means that you installed X without installing its header files or development package.

To avoid dependency issues, you can either: a) stick to precompiled software, b) always install the development packages when you install the binary packages or c) always compile from source.

libqt-mt is a different library to libqt; it's the multithreading version. You cannot just create it as a symbolic link to libqt. If you don't have libqt-mt, then you'll need to compile KDE as non-threading so that it uses libqt and not libqt-mt.

Also, note that you do not have to recompile KDE after installing the headers for Xrender (probably an Xorg module package); just run make and it will link what you've already compiled against the new library.

The problem is completely different. A. I have the devel libs installed and B. I symlinked from libqt-mt.so.3 to libqt-mt.so, now my problem is that I've tried downloading the qt source code from tar.bz2/gz and from the .src.rpm. The src.rpm pathces things up a bit, so it would compile on my athlon64. That's the problem. I think i need to patch every package i need to compile so that it can find its way around lib and lib64 dirz. That's what the patch was supposed to do...