Building the source

Building the source

If you acquired Quanta source from CVS, be sure to read this.

Quanta uses automake and autoconf to ease installation from source. If you're familiar with these, skip to Quanta build considerations, otherwise, please read the following.

To install quanta you need KDE 3 and Qt 3.0.x, and run:

%test `echo $KDEDIR` && echo "KDEDIR ok" || echo "KDEDIR not exported"
%test `echo $QTDIR` && echo "QTDIR ok" || echo "QTDIR not exported"
a
b

If these don't return KDEDIR ok and QTDIR ok, you need to set them permanently or in a script that you call to execute Quanta and before you continue with the build process.

Once these are verified to be set, run the following:

%./configure
%make
%make install (as root)
...

*************** Important *************************

 Add path-to-kde3-bin-directory to your PATH

 Please report bugs with our web form at
 http://bugs.kde.org
    Crediting original team members
 Alexander Yakovlev <yshurik@kde.org>
 Dmitry Poplavsky   <dima@kde.org>
    Current maintainers are
 Eric Laffoon       <sequitur@kde.org>
 Andras Mantia      <amantia@freemail.hu>

 The Quanta developers wish you fun with Quanta.
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Considerations when building

It's reasonable that you would want to customize the location of the Quanta files on your system. To this end, autoconf has a number of options that can be passed to the configure script to control this setup. To get a complete listing of these options, type ./configure --help. These are straight forward and will not be covered here.

If you're having trouble with Quanta running properly, you should check your path to ensure that the kde3 bin directory is in there. Also, be sure that you don't have any older versions of KDE laying about that appear in %PATH before your kde3 bin directory. The same holds true for Qt.

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