Build Problems

[luggw1]

I am attempting to build a package for the first time under Kubuntu and am receiving some strange errors at the configure step of the process. I'm attempting to build the latest version of kdar which I have downloaded and extracted to /usr/local/kdar-2.0.7. I'm building on an AMD 64-bit platform, onto which I installed the 64-bit Kubuntu 7.10. The INSTALL file tells me to use the following configure statement:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/.kde --enable-mode=64 --enable-largefile

I did this and it failed fairly early on, generating a config.log file which I have attached as config.txt.

Being relatively inexperienced at this process, I am having problems seeing where the problem is in the config.log file and what I need to do to fix it.

Can anyone provide a bit of help?

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[Rog131]

Re: Build Problems

Is your configuring stopping at the:

Syntax error
configure:6179: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

Do you have build-essential ? > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check


Link: FAQ: Installing from source

[luggw1]

Re: Build Problems

That was my initial problem...thanks!

Now I'm running into the problem of finding the Qt libraries. I'm currently working through the FAQ and some of the references it provides to see if I can figure this out before I ask for more help.

I had a somewhat canned configure statement that worked under an old SuSE installation on my 64-bit machine, but obviously everything is different under Kubuntu. )

Thanks again for the help.
Bill Lugg

[luggw1]

Re: Build Problems

OK, on further research in the links pointed to by the FAQ provide in a previous post, it appears that I may be missing the -dev packages for Qt. The problem is that I don't know the names of them to feed in to the apt-get command. How does one typically find this info out?

The other strange thing is that I can see a long list of Qt libraries in the /usr/lib64 folder, but using a statement like the following still doesn't seem to work.

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 --enable-mode=64 --enable-largefile --with-qtdir=/usr/lib64/ --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib64/ --with-extra-libs=/usr/lib64

It still complains with the following error:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

FWIW, I have not migrated to KDE 4, so I should still be using some version of Qt predating Qt 4, right? I have once again attached the latest config.log as config.txt if anyone is interested.

[Rog131]

Re: Build Problems

it appears that I may be missing the -dev packages for Qt. The problem is that I don't know the names of them to feed in to the apt-get command. How does one typically find this info out?

Hmm - i simply install kde-devel =>

kde-devel

This metapackage includes official KDE modules that are useful to developers,
including KDE's software development kit (SDK), Qt3's designer tool, and all
core KDE header and development packages.

Your error:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

and
config.log

conftest.cc:2:21: error: qglobal.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:3:26: error: qapplication.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:4:21: error: qcursor.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:5:27: error: qstylefactory.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cc:6:34: error: private/qucomextra_p.h: No such file or directory

What tells:

locate qglobal.h

Here:

/usr/include/qt3/qglobal.h
/usr/include/qt4/Qt/qglobal.h
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h

If you can locate/find those files => This is a path problem...


man locate/updatedb

Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for all files on your system regardless of ownership...
...
updatedb - update the slocate database

If this is new installation, it is good to update datebase first:

sudo updatedb

and then locate...


About qglobal.h (and qapplication.h, qcursor.h...)

Ubuntu Packages

This site provides you with information about all the packages available in the Ubuntu Package archive.

tells that:

You have searched for filenames that contain qglobal.h in suite gutsy, all sections, and all architectures. Found 4 results.

File Packages
/usr/include/lsb3/qt3/qglobal.h lsb-build-desktop3
/usr/include/qt3/qglobal.h libqt3-headers
/usr/include/qt4/Qt/qglobal.h libqt4-dev
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h libqt4-dev

FWIW, I have not migrated to KDE 4, so I should still be using some version of Qt predating Qt 4, right?

GutsyGibbon/Tribe1/Kubuntu

For you KDE developers out there, Kubuntu is announcing the latest Qt release, version 4.3.

KDE 3 needs Qt 3.X or later, but Kubuntu has the latest stable Qt release. To Gutsy it was Qt 4.3.2.

[luggw1]

Re: Build Problems

Thanks for the additional info. That was what I needed to get through the configure script. Loading kde-devel and the suggested and recommended packages did the trick for me. However, it now has compile problems during the make process, associated with libdar. I'm guessing that it might be associated with the fact that I'm building on a 64-bit platform. It looks like Kdar is dead so I think I need to look for another backup tool.

I might post another question about that under another topic.

Thanks again for the help.
Bill Lugg

[nowshining]

Re: Build Problems

if u get any lib errors - install the -dev of it in the adept/synaptic. Alas build-essential won't be enough once u compile more programs, etc.. u'll need to download and install more -dev (development headers/files, etc..) then.

[luggw1]

Re: Build Problems

I finally got a chance to give your suggestion a spin, but couldn't find a -dev package for libdar or dar to help me out, so it would seem I'm right back where I started. Can you point me to the location of the -dev package or the correct name to refer to it by to get adept to find it?

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[nowshining]

Re: Build Problems

in terminal

sudo apt-get install libdar-dev

ur pw won't show as you type.

if that won't work, enable more repositories.

then

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade #to get all the updates needed first.