[Scribus] Re: Scribus Nachrichtensammlung, Band 6, Eintrag 6

[Atlantic Tech Solutions]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 23:10, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 8:30 pm, Lee McLain wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 	Well, I tried to get the QTDIR environment variable so that the system
> > knew where the Qt files were, but that didn't work. I am running Red Hat 9
> > and I did update the Qt libraries to the newest versions.  Other than that,
> > I have all the libraries that are needed to compile Scribus, but I still
> > get the same error during config saying that I need a newer version of Qt
> > =>3.0.2, which I have. I don't know what else to do...do anybody else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lee
> 
> What does config.log say about the cause of your failure?
> 
> I too am trying to build Scribus 1.0, but configure is telling me I don't 
> have Qt>=3.0.2.  It is lying -- I have Qt == 3.0.5 correctly installed, in 
> /usr/share/qt3; ($QTDIR="/usr/share/qt3" is exported, /etc/ld.so.conf 
> includes the reference to /usr/share/qt3/lib, and I invoked configure as 
> ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3).  My config.log says ...
> 
> ------------[snip]---------------------------------------------------------------
> configure:13403: checking for Qt
> configure: 13471: /usr/share/qt3/include/qstyle.h
> taking that
> configure:13580: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest     
> -I/usr/share/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  
> -D_REENTRANT  -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib   conftest.cc  -lqt-mt 
> -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl  -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE  -lresolv -lpthread 1>&5
> In file included from /usr/include/g++-3/stl_algobase.h:50,
>                  from /usr/include/g++-3/list:30,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h:49,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qmap.h:47,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qmime.h:43,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qevent.h:45,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qobject.h:45,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qwidget.h:43,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qdesktopwidget.h:42,
>                  from /usr/share/qt3/include/qapplication.h:42,
>                  from conftest.cc:3:
> confdefs.h:11: previous declaration of `void exit (int)' with C++
> linkage
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:577: conflicts with new declaration with C
> linkage
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:577: declaration of `void exit (int) throw ()'
> throws different exceptions
> confdefs.h:11: than previous declaration `void exit (int)'
> configure:13583: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <qglobal.h>
> #include <qapplication.h>
> #include <qcursor.h>
> #include <qstylefactory.h>
> #include <private/qucomextra_p.h>
> #if ! (QT_VERSION >= 302)
> #error 1
> #endif
> 
> int main() {
>     (void)QStyleFactory::create(QString::null);
>     QCursor c(Qt::WhatsThisCursor);
>     return 0;
> }
> configure:13623: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please 
> check your installation!
> For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
> Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
> ------------[snip]---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Take a close look at *why* this failed.  It has choked on an invalid 
> declaration for the exit function, in confdefs.h, *before* it ever got to 
> test anything about the Qt installation.
> 
> Now, configure builds confdefs.h dynamically, right.  So, why is it putting 
> this rogue declaration in there?  In fact, why is it declaring exit at all, 
> since this is properly declared in stdlib.h in any case?
> 
> This is something which the Scribus package maintainers really need to take a 
> look at;  I don't know how to fix it either.  I do know that configure itself 
> is built by autoconf, using instructions from configure.in, aclocal.m4 and 
> acinclude.m4;  I have had a look at them,  but the problem does not appear to 
> lie there, so perhaps it is a problem with autoconf itself?
> 
> I am trying to build this on a Mandrake 8.2 system, with Qt 3.0.5 compiled 
> from source, (including thread support). My compiler is GCC 2.96, and I also 
> have autoconf 2.13.  Is it simply a case that I need to upgrade to a later 
> GCC (and perhaps autoconf too), or is there some other issue here?

> 
> I would dearly like to get Scribus 1.0 installed, but so far I am stumped. 
> Any suggestions please?


Upgrade autoconf and automake first.

Hope that helps,
Peter