your system is not able to compile a small kde application

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

I get this error when I try to run "configure" of kdiff source on rhel 3.0
it also says:
check if you installed the KDE header files correctly
I've reinstalled all KDE related rpms already....

[Steven E. Protter]

At this point, assuming the co-requisites are in, I'd say its time to file a report with Red Hat or run a search on their system.

Also the exact error text in google is sometimes very useful.

SEP

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Thanks for your reply!
I already tried the sreach on goulge....



What goes under the statement KDE headers?

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hi,

please do a

rpm -qa | grep -i kde

In that list you need to have the kdelibs-devel package to build KDE apps.

If that is not the problem certainly the full error message you receive from ./configure including context would be useful.

Greetings, Martin

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

I have ALL KDE related packages installed.
the attached is the message I get.

[Stuart Browne]

What about the 'kde-devel' packages?

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

probably you don't have

qt-devel

package?

[Stuart Browne]

I would have thought that these two lines meant it did find it:

checking for Qt... libraries /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib, headers /usr/lib/qt-3.1/include
checking if Qt compiles without flags... no


You know something about this package that isn't in the output thus far Vitaly?

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

I had all the mentioned above installed-still can't continue

[Roberto Polli · Accepted solution]

Hi,
I'm sure you read all the READMEs about compilation but the first question I have in mind is
Did you set all the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, QTDIR, KDEDIR... and such variables? compiling kde apps requires a lot ov env vars set.

Peace, R.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

I've tryed to configure/make kdiff on my RHEL3.0 box; I got the same error as Alexandr.

My guess is: kdiff 0.9 [the latest version] was released in 1999 and probably doesn't compile well with KDE&QT 3.1

[Mark Grant]

Try building "Kompare" instead. It'æs much better and probably works with recent KDE

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Thanks guys!
consider this thread as closed.
I'll convince the user to stick with kompare.
Thanks again!