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It is probably a mixup of Qt with or withour multithreading and KDE expecting it to be the other way around.

I'm encountering the same problem.

I've compiled XFree86-4.4.0 and Qt-3.3.2 (twice even!) with no problems. Made sure I included "-thread" even. It is throwing the following error:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (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!

Two things of interest here. One, config.log tells me the following:

/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_GetShort'
/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_ExitFrame'
/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_GetLong'
/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_Seek'
/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_EnterFrame'

which, ordinarily, I would assume to be a qt problem. However, when I run X and then log in, I get my old KDE (3.0.3) of course, but now its using the new Qt libraries!

Hi,

FT_Stream could be something with the X font server.

I compiled QT 3.3.2 a few days ago with no problems here .
(slackware 9.1, XFree 4.3)

I remember you could give a path or set an option for any font config.
Perhaps you should check you config about this.

bye
hille

I remember encountering some font errors. I also noted that all my Adobe (Helvetica, Times, etc) fonts were gone.

Did you compile XFree86 or are you just using the one that came with Slackware?

Hi,

I am using the XFree 4.3 + tools coming directly from Slackware 9.1.

I need to recompile QT, because my old packages doesn't support STL. The result
was a *much* better font support than the old QT package. Now KDE looks much greater.

I don't know what was wrong with the old package, but my text are looking badly before.

My configure options were only threads and STL support.

bye

Hi again,

i found this in the change document for QT 3.3.2

------- start

- QFont
Avoids badly scaled fonts, and prefers exact matches.
Made sure symbol fonts get loaded correctly.
Made it possible to load Latin fonts that do not contain the
Euro symbol.
Fixed glyph width bug observed with some Khmer fonts.
Fixed crash with misconfigured Xft.
Fixed problem with font selection for Xft2 when having Latin
text with non-Latin locale.
Respects custom dpi settings for Xft.
Does not use Xft if we have FreeType1 but no XRender.
Fixed memory leak in the font engine when drawing transformed
fonts.

------- end

it seems that trolltech fixes some bugs around the font support. This could be the
reason why KDE now looks much better ;-)

bye

I had this problem as well, and I found that if you get this, it is that you have (or don't have at all) an older version of FreeType. Even FreeType 2.1.3 isn't sufficient, as my stock RedHat 9 box came with it. I found that everthing compiled and linked when I
downloaded 2.1.8.

Here's what I did to make the Qt compile work:

1. Downloaded FreeType 2.1.8 from http://freetype.org
2. unpacked it, cd'ed into the dir, and did
./configure --prefix=/usr
NOTE: don't forget to use the prefix part here, as it will install in /usr/local by default,
and that's going to keep the error messages showing up, because RH9 installs it in
/usr
3. sudo make install
4. cd /usr/X11R6/lib
5. cp /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.6 .
6. ln -s libfreetype.so.6.3.6 libfreetype.so
7. ln -s ln -s libfreetype.so.6.3.6 libfreetype.so.6
8. cd $QTDIR
9. make


Cheers,
reaper.

Quoted

Originally posted by toks725
I tried to compile new KDE.
What i have now is a debian base system
I already install Xfree and openMitif, and openSSL and also Qt
and i tried to run ./qmake --version and it show my Qt version is 3.3.0

Did you install Qt packages or did you compile yourself.
If you installed packages, did you install libqt3-mt and libqt3-mt-dev?

Cheers,
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