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 On 20/10/10 15:22, James L wrote:
>>  On 20/10/10 08:28, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:45:11 +0200, René Kjellerup
>>> <rk.katana.steel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the other matter unless you're still running kde 3 then you need
>>>> --disable-kde else the config will fail when it can't find Qt 3.x
>>> On that matter can, we please --disable-kde by default. I don't know of
>>> recent distros that ship kde3 but not KDE4, and those who do can turn it
>>> on in their distro-specific defaults.
>> Forgive the newbie question, but while I've got a lot of programming
>> experience large chunks of detail here (gnu tools, frinstance) are new
>> to me.
>>
>> I've dug a bit, found configure.in, and found
>>
>> AC_ARG_ENABLE(kde,
>> [
>>   --disable-kde           Disables KDE native widgets.],
>> ,)
>>
>> Does this switch it on? Will deleting it disable kde by default?
>>
>> If it will, I'll put a patch in.
>>> Even better, our make should detect the lack of qt3 headers and disable
>>> it automatically rather than bailing out.
>> That's a bit deeper ... won't stop me having a go if someone would care
>> to give me a few guidelines :-)
>>
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
> That means '--disable-kde' is a command line option to 'configure'.
> I think 'configure' is called from the .ebuild and the .ebuild sets the
> configure command line based on USE flags.
>
>
That's portage. I'm not using portage. I'm using
http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/

And the aim is to fix it UPSTREAM, not for gentoo. It's just that my
system is gentoo.

Cheers,
Wol