Building kdeadmin

I've been struggling a bit with building kdeadmin-3.5.13. First the instructions on the HowToBuild page are a bit confusing: 1. Regenerate Autoconf/Automake files cp -Rp <path to your system's libtool.m4 file> admin/libtool.m4.in cp -Rp <path to your system's ltmain.sh file> admin/ltmain.sh make -f admin/Makefile.common Why the -R in the cp command? -R, -r, --recursive all mean the same thing, but are not really meaningful if the source is a file and not a directory. I'm not sure the permissions are meaningful either. I'd just use --verbose. 2. Configure and Build ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX} --sysconfdir=${SYSCONFDIR} \ --libdir=${LIBDIR} make This is where I get into problems. I have qt in /opt/qt and Trinity base in /opt/trinity. Configure fails to find tqt and then thinks it's version 4. It doesn't find qt and fails. This can be overcome with: CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/trinity/include/tqt' \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity ... The --with-qt-includes option does not solve the problem, but the CPPFLAGS can be either before or after ./configure. Environment variables are: PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:\ /opt/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:\ /opt/llvm/bin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/xorg/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/trinity/lib/pkgconfig:\ /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:\ /opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig:\ /opt/xorg/lib/pkgconfig:\ /opt/xorg/share/pkgconfig QTDIR=/opt/qt Then the make fails in several places. What I finally found that works is: make LDFLAGS='-lqt -lkdecore' \ TQTDCOPIDL=dcopidl2cpp \ TQTDCOPIDL2CPP=dcopidl2cpp This again tells me that configure didn't do it's job. In the Makefile, both TQTDCOPIDL and TQTDCOPIDL2CPP are blank. The LIB_KDECORE variable is set correctly but is not used. LIBTQT_LDFLAGS is set to -ltqt, but that doesn't do the job. There are two programs in /opt/trinity/bin: dcopidl2cpp-tqt and dcopidl-tqt, but they do not work with the input in the Makefile. I did not have any of these problems in KDE3. Is there something I'm missing here? -- Bruce