[plug] Compiling KDE 1.1.2

[jeffw at mbox.com.au]

KDE 1.1.2 will not work with Qt 2.2.0. Why don't you download the latest 
preview of KDE2 and use that? It's up to the penultimate release I think 
- should be prety stable.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard Blackham <dagobah at mad.scientist.com>
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 6:17 pm
Subject: [plug] Compiling KDE 1.1.2

> List,
> 
> I am trying to compile and install KDE 1.1.2 on my Debain 2.2 
> machine, and
> compiling from the source tgz's. I have installed Qt 2.2.0 source and
> binaries which seem to work fine. I've compiled and installed the
> kdesupport libs easily enough. When it comes to the kdelibs 
> themselves,they tend to spew errors that seem to be about the Qt 
> libraries or
> headers:
> 
> ---BEGIN CUT---
> 
> make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kdelibs-
> 1.1.2'Making all in kdecore make[2]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/kdelibs-1.1.2/kdecore' /bin/sh ../libtool --silent
> --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -
> I/usr/local/qt/include-O2 -Wall -c kconfigbase.cpp 
> kconfigbase.cpp: In method `const class
> QString KConfigBase::readEntry(const char *, const char * = 0) const':
> kconfigbase.cpp:382: no matching function for call to 
> `QString::detach ()'
> kconfigbase.cpp:394: `class QCharRef' used where a `int' was expected
> kconfigbase.cpp: In method `void KConfigBase::writeEntry(const 
> char *,
> QStrList &, char = ',', bool = true, bool = false, bool = false)':
> kconfigbase.cpp:894: call of overloaded `writeEntry(const char *&, 
> QString&, bool &, bool &, bool &)' is ambiguous 
> kconfigbase.cpp:808: candidates
> are: const char * KConfigBase::writeEntry(const char *, const char 
> *, bool
> = true, bool = false, bool = false) kconfigbase.h:543:  const char *
> KConfigBase::writeEntry(const char *, bool, bool = true, bool = false,
> bool = false) kconfigbase.h:561:  const char *
> KConfigBase::writeEntry(const char *, const QFont &, bool = true, 
> bool =
> false, bool = false) kconfigbase.h:579:  void
> KConfigBase::writeEntry(const char *, const QColor &, bool = true, 
> bool =
> false, bool = false) 
> .
> .
> .
> make[2]: *** [kconfigbase.lo] Error 1 make[2]:
> Leaving directory `/usr/src/kdelibs-1.1.2/kdecore' make[1]: ***
> [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/kdelibs-1.1.2' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> ---END CUT---
> 
> the . . . is a tonne of similar messages about amiguities in the 
> functionprototypes all referred from in kconfigbase.h/cpp. I'm 
> guessing by the Q's
> there's something wrong with my Qt library? I can't seem to find 
> any joy
> in the KDE web pages, FAQs, installation notes, etc.
> Can anybody shed any light on the source of my problems please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> --
> Bernard Blackham
> dagobah at mad.scientist.com
> 
> 
>