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The problem is in these two lines of your build script: cp -Rp /usr/lib/build/libtool.m4 file> admin/libtool.m4.in cp -Rp /usr/lib/build/ltmain.sh file> admin/ltmain.sh

They should read: cp -Rp /usr/lib/build/libtool.m4 admin/libtool.m4.in cp -Rp /usr/lib/build/ltmain.sh admin/ltmain.sh

Okay. You might want to update your wiki. :)

<path to your system's libool.m4 file> was meant to be replaced as a block of text. I have tried to make that clearer on the Wiki now by italicizing it and changing the text color; any thoughts on whether intelligibility is improved or not?

Also, you can update it as well, I don't mind. ;-)

http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild

I copied and pasted the text verbatim.

Progress! The tqtinterface package finally built. :D

Woo-hoo! Now on to the next mountain ---

Have you found any need to rebuild any of the following?

qt-3.3.8b dbus-qt3 qca-1 qca-tls

Darrell

On Ubuntu only dbus-qt3, because it was removed from the official archive.

I am trying to build kdelibs from your svn tree. I'm building on a system with KDE 3.5.10 installed.

The following packages are installed:

tqtinterface cups poppler pcre libxml2 libxslt qt-3.3.8b dbus-qt3 qca-1 qca-tls arts

I have not rebuilt arts.

In the kdelibs build script, I'm using the --disable-dnssd option.

As we discussed previously, seems I either need to install an avahi package or use the --disable-dnssd build option.

Without that option the build fails quickly.

However, your build system is looking specifically for avahi-qt3 and avahi-client. I believe those are Debian-specific package names.

Eventually I will test building kdelibs with avahi installed. Right now the kdelibs package fails to build:

In file included from /usr/lib/qt/include/qobject.h:48, from /usr/include/tqobject.h:32, from /usr/include/tqiodevice.h:26, from /usr/include/tqdatastream.h:26, from /usr/include/tqvaluelist.h:26, from ./kxerrorhandler.h:28, from kipc.cpp:35: /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:64: error: expected identifier before numeric constant /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:64: error: expected `}' before numeric constant /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:64: error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:145: error: expected `)' before 'type' /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:146: error: declaration of '~QEvent' as non-member /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:147: error: 'Type' does not name a type /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:148: error: non-member function 'bool spontaneous()' cannot have cv-qualifier /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h: In function 'bool spontaneous()': /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:148: error: 'spont' was not declared in this scope /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h: At global scope: /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:149: error: expected unqualified-id before 'protected' /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:151: error: expected unqualified-id before 'private' /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:153: error: function definition does not declare parameters /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:156: error: 'friend' used outside of class /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:157: error: 'friend' used outside of class /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:158: error: 'friend' used outside of class /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:159: error: 'friend' used outside of class /usr/lib/qt/include/qevent.h:160: error: expected declaration before '}' token make[4]: *** [kipc.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/kdelibs/kdecore' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/kdelibs/kdecore' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/kdelibs/kdecore' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/dev/shm/kdelibs' make: *** [all] Error 2

I hope that information helps.

Can you post a paragraph or two of the text immediately preceding the error shown above? Context always helps when debugging. ;-) From what I can see the build failure is not related to dnssd, but could be a Qt include sequence problem.

Tim