[bt-devel] Re: trouble building with custom KDEDIR

[Tim Brodie]

I initially went this route, and after a while gave up.  There was
just too many dependant packages that had to be upgraded in the rh
6.2 world to make it work right.  I was getting weird problems
happening during execution that nobody else seemed to experience.
(I'm hoping that it's just a development environment set of issues,
and that Fred will be able to get rid of most of the problems via
a proper binary distribution to enable us to run on rh6.2.)

I moved to Mandrake 8.0 on my development platform, and never looked
back.  I could move my focus from fixing environmental problems to
working on the project.  In fact, I've decided that (for my day-job)
my front-office workstation distribution will be Mandrake 8.0, while
my back-office server version remains rh6.2 with kernel 2.2.16-3 due
largely to my development experiences joining this project.

I'm currently working hard at gaining C++ skills during the current
code freeze before we start forward on v1.1.
Steve Oualline/_Practical C++ Programming_/O'Reilly has been of
great help to me.  I never really understood the merits of C++
from a development perspective; it seemed more a tomatoe/tomatuh
issue to me.  But Oualline really has explained well the real
advantages to C++ that has gave me really motivation to master
the language.

I have a list of package upgrades I did on rh6.2 to make BibleTime
*appear* to work (at home), but wasn't able to eliminate the
niggley problems (example: intermittent segment violations that
don't occur with the same source on my Mandrake box.

I know moving to another distribution can be pretty painful, but
I found it well worth it.

Hope this helps...

Tim

PS: The KDE prefix in rh is /usr; qt can be installed anywhere but
liked /usr/local/qt just fine.  Doing a 'make distclean' will get
rid of all caches and ensure when you do a './configure' will pick
up sources you spec with env vars 'KDEDIR' 'QTDIR'.


----- Original Message -----
From: <mg.pub@gmx.net>
To: <bt-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [bt-devel] Re: trouble building with custom KDEDIR


> Hi Mark,
>
> try using
>
> rm config.cache
>
configure --prefix=/usr/local/kde2.1.1/ --with-qt-dir=/home/mark/sw/qt-2.2.4
>
> this tells configure which paths to use.
>
> Martin
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having a little trouble building the BibleTime software from CVS.
> > I'm running RH 6.2 with RPM KDE 2.0.1 installed, but also use a source
> > build KDE 2.1.1 distribution.  The configure doesn't seem to be finding
> > my KDE source build which is located in /usr/local/kde2.1.1/. I made
> > sure that KDEDIR is set properly, but it still seems to be picking up
> > the RPM version in /usr. Any hints or suggestions on how I can get it to
> > find KDE would be helpfull. Btw, I'm also using a source built QT 2.2.4
> > in /home/mark/sw/qt-2.2.4, and the configure seems to pick that up just
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
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