Slavek, All, Working with tqscintilla/tqscintilla-plugin, I was quite pleased and surprise to find tqscintilla builds just fine (first time). However, tqscintilla-plugin build fails due to the autogenerated Makefile including -lqt for libqt in the g++ command. The major part of the build is done in: tqscintilla/qt Building with: cd tqscintilla/qt qmake qscintilla.pro make works fine. But the Makefile "install" is broken. While the make produces the libraries it FAILS to install anything: 1577860 Jan 23 15:38 libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 libqscintilla.so -> libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 libqscintilla.so.7 -> libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 libqscintilla.so.7.0 -> libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 The plugin is built in tqscintilla/designer with: cd tqscintilla/designer qmake designer.pro make fails with the error: g++ -luuid -Wl,-rpath,../ -Wl,-rpath,../qt -Wl,-rpath,/opt/tqt3/lib -shared -o libqscintillaplugin.so qscintillaplugin.o -L../ -L../qt -L/opt/tqt3/lib -luuid -lqscintilla -lqt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Looking at the string, it looks for -lqt (that doesn't exists - and is NOT needed) Changing into the build directory and issuing the command without the -lqt completes fine: g++ -luuid -Wl,-rpath,../ -Wl,-rpath,../qt -Wl,-rpath,/opt/tqt3/lib -shared -o libqscintillaplugin.so qscintillaplugin.o -L../ -L../qt -L/opt/tqt3/lib -luuid -lqscintilla -lqt $ ls -al -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody root 22174 Jan 23 14:41 libqscintillaplugin.so The problem is that qmake autogenerates the Makefile and the Makefile automatically includes the -lqt for some reason. Checking both the tqscintilla/qt/qscintilla.pro and the resulting tqscintilla/qt/Makefile there is no -lqt added to the g++ command for that app. Why is it being added to the tqscintilla/designer/Makefile? More importantly - how do we fix it? To get around the install & lib issues, I simply modified my build/package script to get around the errors: build() { cd ${srcdir} ## CMAKE config msg "Setting PATH, CMAKE and Trinity Environment variables" # Source the QT and TDE profile [ "$QTDIR" = "" ] && . /etc/profile.d/tqt3.sh # or tqt3.sh [ "$TDEDIR" = "" ] && . /etc/profile.d/trinity.sh # or tde.sh ## build tqscintilla msg "Building - ${pkgname}..." cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-}/qt qmake qscintilla.pro make ## build plugin files msg "Building - ${pkgname}-plugin..." cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-}/designer # patch designer/designer.pro; LIBPATH += ../tmplib ../qt msg "patching designer/designer.pro; LIBPATH += ../tmplib ../qt" sed -i 's/tmplib/\ ..\/qt/' designer.pro qmake designer.pro # patch the resulting Makefile to remove -lqt msg "patching Makefile to remove -lqt" sed -i 's/-lqscintilla -lqt/-lqscintilla/' Makefile make } package() { pkgdesc="A port to Qt3 of Neil Hodgson's Scintilla C++ editor class" provides=('qscintilla-qt3') options=('staticlibs' 'libtool' '!emptydirs' '!strip') msg "Packaging - $pkgbase" cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-}/qt # use for non-out-of-source make INSTALL_ROOT="${pkgdir}" install # other form - older package # install missing library files install -m 755 -Dd "${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib" install -m 644 -D libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 "${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib" ln -s ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so ln -s ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so.7 ln -s ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 ${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0 # installing includes for i in qextscintilla*.h; do install -m 644 -D $i "${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/include/$i" done cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-}/designer # use for non-out-of-source install -m 644 -D libqscintillaplugin.so "${pkgdir}${QTDIR}/lib" } I need to confirm that my package contents are the total contents for the package. Since you build in the ../qt directory and the ../src is not touched (except by the magic Makefiles) I'm skeptical. My package consists of: opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillaprinter.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillacommand.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerbatch.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerpython.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerbash.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerjava.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerdiff.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintilla.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillabase.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexersql.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexercpp.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillacommandset.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexer.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillaglobal.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexeridl.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexermakefile.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerjavascript.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerruby.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexercss.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerlua.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillamacro.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerperl.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillaapis.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerproperties.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexercsharp.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerhtml.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexerpov.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintillalexertex.h opt/tqt3/include/qextscintilladocument.h opt/tqt3/translations/qscintilla_pt_br.qm opt/tqt3/translations/qscintilla_fr.qm opt/tqt3/translations/qscintilla_ru.qm opt/tqt3/translations/qscintilla_de.qm opt/tqt3/lib/libqscintilla.so opt/tqt3/lib/libqscintilla.so.7 opt/tqt3/lib/libqscintillaplugin.so opt/tqt3/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0.1 opt/tqt3/lib/libqscintilla.so.7.0 What do you say Slavek? -- David C. 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