[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to emerge kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 06/16/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Revell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a bit of a problem with a new Gentoo install that I'm currently
 > trying to install KDE on. The installation of kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5
 > is failing, apparently due to a missing header file in its sources.

   <snip>
> [ 11%] ^[[34m^[[1mGenerating koptionsdlgs.h
   <snip>
> ^[[0mmoc: /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kfilereplace-4.3.5/work/kfilereplace-4.3.5_build/kfilereplace/koptionsdlgs.h:
 > No such file

I have no idea what's going wrong, but I'm willing to make suggestions
anyway :)

The two lines of compiler output above show that the missing header file
is supposed to be generated on the fly by the qt/moc tools.  That means
that the header file is not actually being generated, or maybe (but not
likely) being generated in the wrong directory.

I don't know much about the kde/qt build system, but it seems to involve
the automoc and cmake packages as well as qmake, which is part of qt-core.

For lack of anything better to suggest, I would try the good old shotgun
technique of recompiling every package that has to do with building kde
and qt packages, e.g. automoc, cmake, qt-core, and maybe more that I know
nothing about.

In particular, though, I always suspect that old, stale, leftover files
from previous versions of related packages like qt and kde may be fouling
things up.  I pay close attention to the dates on files in /usr/include/*
and /usr/qt and /usr/kde and /usr/lib/qt and /usr/lib/kde to see if there
are just a few files with the same (old) date.  Oh, and /usr/lib/pkgconfig
is worth a look also.

Meanwhile, hope for someone to give you a better answer.