[wplug] ./configure

[Brian Sammon]

> I have been trying to compile a couple of different programs and I keep 
> getting this error.
> "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= 2.0) (libraries) not found. 
> Please check your installation!"
> In the readme file with one of the programs it said to try "./configure 
> --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt/dir" and I tried this with no luck at all. I 
> have four qt libraries 1.45, 2.2.0, 2.2.2 and 2.2.4. They are located in 
> /usr/lib. I am using KDE 2.1 with RedHat 7.0. One program is xmms-kde 
> and I think the other was kweather, they are both KDE applets. Let me 
> know if any further information is needed. Thanks.

Have you successfully compiled any programs on this system before?

I would get bizarre errors like this on new installs and they would turn out 
to be caused by me missing something else that the configure script just 
assumes that you have.  Usually it was some utility that you don't need for 
general system usage, but is taken-for-granted as being on a system for 
compiling stuff.

Unfortunately I can't remember any of the specific details.  I usually ended 
up poking around the (rather large) configure script and searching for the 
message it gave (such as "checking for Qt") and figuring out what it did and 
then running that test manually to see what happened.