./configure of KSmoothDock error...also with other programs!

J_K9 · 05-11-2005, 08:16 AM

Hi,

My friend is having a problem, that is that whenever he tries to compile a program from source he gets an error message, like the one below (last few lines included only; if you would like to see the full ./compile, then please tell me to post it):

Code:

checking for char... yes
checking size of char... 1
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for shl_unload in -ldld... no
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your 
installation and add the correct paths!
[maniac@private ksmoothdock-3.5.1]$

This is obviously when compiling KSmoothDock, but it also happens with other programs too. Could you please tell me what to do? I am running Fedora Core 3, with GNOME/KDE. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks,

J_K9

trevelluk · 05-11-2005, 08:23 AM

That means the X11 development packages aren't installed. You will need to install either the XF86-devel or xorg-devel packages (I think they're the right names anyway), depending on whether you're using X.org or XFree86.

J_K9 · 05-11-2005, 08:28 AM

Thanks! Is there any way to check whether I'm using X.org of XFree86, so that I can know which to download?

J_K9

trevelluk · 05-11-2005, 08:41 AM

According to this page , Fedora 3 comes with X.org.
I don't think you'll need to download the package though, it should be included on the CDs.

J_K9 · 05-11-2005, 08:56 AM

Thanks, I managed to fix the X.org-devel problem by installing the package from the FC3 DVD, but now I have another error! Here it is:

Code:

checking for libz... -lz
checking for libpng... -lpng -lz -lm
checking for libjpeg6b... no
checking for libjpeg... -ljpeg
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1.0) (headers and libraries) not found. 
Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
[maniac@cmeurice ksmoothdock-3.5.1]$

I have looked on the DVD, but I don't know where Qt is (or what it is, even after looking at the website

)...any ideas? Thanks,

J_K9

trevelluk · 05-11-2005, 09:05 AM

Qt is a GUI library. Once again, you need the development packages for it, which should be called qt3-devel. I don't know where it would be on the DVD though.

I'd guess you'll need the KDE development libraries as well. There's a lot of them, in packages kde(something)-devel.