Manual installation of kconfigeditor problem

[totoymola]

Hi.

I am trying to install the program kconfigeditor from source and I am having a bit of a problem when I run make. It keeps giving me this message.

make: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by `/Makefile'. Stop.

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

[claydoh]

Re: Manual installation of kconfigeditor problem

I dug a little, and as this app is so old (over two years since last update), you will need to do a couple of edits to get it to compile:
1) Open the file in your sources /admin/cvs.sh in kate and idit it as such (edit to match the bold text) :

check_autotool_versions()
{
required_autoconf_version="2.53 or newer"
AUTOCONF_VERSION=`$AUTOCONF --version | head -n 1`
case $AUTOCONF_VERSION in
Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* | Autoconf*2.6* | autoconf*2.6* ) : ;;
"" )
echo "*** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!."
echo "*** KDE requires autoconf $required_autoconf_version"
exit 1
;;
* )
echo "*** YOU'RE USING $AUTOCONF_VERSION."
echo "*** KDE requires autoconf $required_autoconf_version"
exit 1
;;
esac

AUTOHEADER_VERSION=`$AUTOHEADER --version | head -n 1`
case $AUTOHEADER_VERSION in
Autoconf*2.5* | autoheader*2.5* | Autoconf*2.6* | autoheader*2.6* ) : ;;
"" )
echo "*** AUTOHEADER NOT FOUND!."
echo "*** KDE requires autoheader $required_autoconf_version"

2) Now back in the main source dir, run this command:

make -f admin/Makefile.common

Then run the usual ./configure, make, etc.

Unfortunately it compiles but does not open up any config settings or anything, it is just a basically blank shell with noting to do, at least in kde 3.5.6 so it may not be worth the effort.....

[totoymola]

Re: Manual installation of kconfigeditor problem

Thank you claydoh!

You are right, it is a pretty old program. The latest in kde-apps.org (version 0.9.5) was last updated July 2004. However, in http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kconfigeditor/ they have a newer version (version 0.9.6) but it does not say when it was updated.

It looks like a promising piece of software that's why I wanted to try it. But I trust your word that it doesn't work on your KDE 3.5.6, so I don't think it is worth trying to install it. Anyway, do you know any alternative to this program?

Thanks!