From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 8:36: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepB.post.tele.dk (fepB.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFAB37B41C for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([62.243.124.243]) by fepB.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011107163558.EXIP22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:35:58 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Compiling non-port sources Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:36:05 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011107163558.EXIP22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sometimes I want to install a piece of software not available in ports but I usually do not get far. My "quest" usually ends right at running the configure-script, because it's not able to locate the various libs (png, jpeg, qt, gtk etc. etc.). Sometimes I'm able to parse a --with-missinglib=/where/it/is. But all in all They don't compile/configure out of the box. Is there some tips on how to get non-bsd-aware sources to behave? Presently I'm trying to compile scribus (http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/) which fails to locate png, jpeg and qt. I got it to locate jpeg, but png is still in the dark. Qt is a puzzle it accepts --with-qt-includes=/usr/X11R6/includes/qt2 but it still fails to load the libraries. I've tried --with-qt-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib/ and other, but with no luck. Any help tips would be apreciated. Bjarne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message