[Libreoffice] Building on CentOS 5

[Wols Lists]

On 01/11/10 23:06, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:
> Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 01/11/10 05:03, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:
>>  
>>> There is also one I'm not sure how to satisfy within CentOS 5's
>>> packaging.  This would be Qt4.  Here are the messages from make.
>>>
>>>  checking which jfreereport libs to use... internal
>>>  checking for jfreereport module... OK
>>>  checking which Apache commons-* libs to use... internal
>>>  checking for Qt4 headers... no
>>>  configure: error: Qt4 headers not found.  Please specify the root of
>>> your Qt4 installation by exporting QT4DIR before running "configure".
>>>  make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
>>>  [microman at multimedia01 build]$
>>>     
>>
>> The way the build system handles Qt at the moment is an (excuse my
>> french) nightmare.
>>
>> While it uses pkg-config to detect gtk, it used to just assume Qt3 was
>> present. Seeing as that's not true on most recent distros, it's just
>> been "fixed" to assume Qt4 is present. Which is just as f'ing stupid,
>> but stands a far better chance of being true.
>>
>> When I've deciphered how pkg-config and Qt interact (which is my current
>> project :-) the build system should correctly detect Qt4 and behave
>> accordingly. Seeing as I haven't got Qt3 on my system, someone else will
>> have to fix that should they wish that to work properly. Or I'll just
>> delete Qt3 support :-) but that'll probably evoke a few howls of
>> protest :-)
>>   
>
> Yes, it would, and I'd be one of the howlers! You'd be surprised at
> how many RHEL/CentOS boxes running the stock KDE 3.5 are used as
> desktops. If Kubuntu doesn't make sense for a given deployment, and
> that happens at times, I then call for CentOS 5.
>
> Perhaps a specific command switch ("--enable-kde3") might do the trick?

It's there already - just the non-intuitive --enable-kde.

The point is, configure autodetects gtk2. I've just put the patch in to
autodetect qt4. If you can find the relevant file I've asked for, I'll
make it autodetect kde3, but I can't do it without that file and my
system doesn't have it ...

Cheers,
Wol