Very Computer

I've been running kde-1.1 happily for sometime, playing
with snapshots, trying to stay a bit current with the
koffice development. The last koffice I played with was
in mid-February, though, and I'm in the process of trying
the newer snapshots which require qt-2.0.

I've got a clean build of qt-2.0, which I have temporarily
stashed away in its own directory so I don't have to keep
switching links between qt-1.4 and qt-2.0 :) when building
new snapshots.

Anyhow, I have a couple of problems building kdelibs snapshots,
and can't figure out why I'm having them, and I hope someone can
help.

First of all, unless I add an #include <qfiledefs.h> in
kdelibs/kdecore/kconfig.cpp, make bombs there with a
undefined "W_OK" . Furthermore, by glancing at that
#include file, it seems that W_OK is only #defined when running
on an MSDOS system. I'm running Linux; DOS is nowhere.

Second, I get a bunch of undefined things, such as KDE_DIR,
KDE_BINDIR, KDE_ICONDIR, et. al., in kapp.cpp. Scouring the
Makefiles, configfiles and so forth makes me think that
these items *should* be defined somewhere, perhaps in a
'confdefs.h' file, but said file is nowhere to be found.

Also, ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/local/lib/qt2 (where I
put it) doesn't seem to work, as ./configure still thinks the
qt libraries are in /usr/lib.

I've built numerous snapshots before (qt-1.4 though) and haven't
managed to run into the problem.

Suggestions? Any bleeding-edgers reading this? And anyway what
happened to the kde-user list? I haven't got any posts since
Saturday 3/27. :(

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David E. Fox                 Tax              Thanks for letting me


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The way I have handled swapping between qt2 and 1.4x is by
setting a soft link. i.e. /usr/lib/qt->/usr/lib/qt-1.42 or /usr/src/qt.
I then only have to copy (cp -d ) /usr/lib/qt/lib to /usr/lib.  This
has been working for all the snapshots so far.

Now, does anyone know why the desktop background won't start?  It
has been this way since the conversion to qt 2.0.

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