Re: compiling koffice

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ross wrote:

> When going through the installation of the development tools i thought i
> needed to compile programs, a dependancy check brought up a message
> saying that X includes is also required to compile some applications.
> Install the third part of the kernel source... i wasn't able to find
> the 'THIRD' part but installed the whole kernel source code.

Heh, I'm afraid the X11 headers are NOTHING to do with the kernel source.
Look on your distribution disk, there'll be a file called X11devel.rpm, or
something similar with a lot more numbers in ;))

> i downloaded 'koffice-1999127.tar.gz'. when i ran ./configure the
> following message apeared.....
> checking for shl_unload in -ldl...no
> checking for X... configure:error: cant find X includes. please check
> your installation and add the correct paths.

Yep, you need the X development stuff installed. Follow above
instructions. But, be warned: I find it difficult to believe you'll get
KOffice running on your system. You need:
KDE 2 (KRASH)
QT2
If you have those on your system YOU WILL BREAK KDE. So, be warned. If
you're not a KDE developer, I don't recommend KOffice. It's alpha
software. It's not bug-ridden, but it has bugs and not a great deal of
features are completed fully. Sure, the screenshots look nice, but it's
not a finished product.

Cheers,

Alex.

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