This happens every time I try to install any QT/KDE application. It happens when I try to emerge or manually download the source and try "configure". I guess this means the scrit is not able to locate the qt-mt shared library, which is present in the system! The way to fix this if to unmerge QT AND freetype (dont ask). And then emerge QT again and then its fixed.....till the next time you try to install some other app... Frankly I am quite sick of this...I have tried to seek some help in the forums but no luck. Its frustating to have to emerge qt and freetype every time you want to install some QT/KDE app. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to emerge a QT/KDE app 2.watch the stuff download and unpack 3.the problem kicks in when portage runs configure on the package Actual Results: emerge some_kde_package .... ..... ..... checking for extra libs... no checking for libz... -lz checking for libpng... -lpng -lz -lm checking for libjpeg6b... no checking for libjpeg... -ljpeg checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! Same problem every time. Expected Results: Should have compiled and installed the package. # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm crypt encode gif libg++ mikmod mmx ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime xml2 xv directfb gdbm berkdb slang readline arts sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl 3dfx alsa avi cdr -doc fbcon libgd jpeg odbc pic mad mpeg libwww smooth sse usb vim-with-x xml aml2 spell svga 3dnow truetype xmms zlib X -cups -foomaticdb -java -gnome -motif"
Then something is wrong on your system because this is not normal behavior. Have you taken a look in the config.log of the packages you're emerging to see exactly how the failing is occurring? It may be for different reasons than you think.
Yes I did take a look and I dont really understand whats going on. Will post the config.log here. Can you please tell me what relevant sections to look at/post? Thanks
Most likely somewhere near the end. You should see some form of error that will explain why it died.
Created attachment 18536 [details] config.log for a failed configure This is a sample config.log, obtained by trying to install a package. This contains the offending qt-mt failure, towards the end (about line 858).
I have attached the config.log (sorry a bit late). Can anyone please help me spot the error, or where my system is misconfigured? Thanks a lot. Sawan
Hang on. configure:20899: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lresolv -lpthread 1>&5/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined reference to `FT_Get_BDF_Property'collect2: ld returned 1 exit statusconfigure:20902: $? = 1configure: failed program was:#include "confdefs.h"#include <qglobal.h> Does `FT_Get_BDF_Property' have anything to do with fonts? Because if so, I am using a modified binary for Freetype fonts from here: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/ Its very good stuff and makes my fonts extremely nice. I downloaded the provided file and copied over the binary as instructed. This was back for the previous version of Freetype. I do teh same for the new Freetype too whenever I recompile and install it. Incidentally, after I install the binary, KDE gives me a "cannot start KDE, please check your installation" message every time I startx BUT it does startup after I click on the OK button.
yep, that's your problem - you may need to reemerge Qt to fix this, or some combination of fontconfig/freetype.
Thanks for your help.
Ok, marking this as fixed
I saw this behavior when I tried to build the baghira theme ebuild as part of emerge -UD world last Friday. I reemerged qt and now I have to reemerge kdelibs. Is there any way of restructuring ebuilds so freetype etc. don't collide with QT/KDE? Having to reemerge kde/qt any time freetype or any other component is upgraded is extremely lame...
There probably is. If you figure it out, let me know.
