Quanta failing to configure and install on Mandriva 2007

On Saturday 11 November 2006 10:47 am, Diabolus wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a Mandriva 2007 user, which means I'm a very naif
Linux user and that
> you have to bear with me .
>
> I started to use Quanta as supplied in Mandrake 10.1 (I
use it for my
> personal webpage, nothing special), but, to my
disappointment, Quanta is
> not included in Mandriva 2007 (I skipped Mandriva
2006). I then downloaded
> Quanta and tried to install it, but it didn't pass the
"configure" step
> because:
>
> checking for libxslt libraries >= ... ./configure:
line 34352: xslt-config:
> command not found ./configure: line 34353: test: :
integer expression
> expected
> configure: error: You need at least libxslt  for this
version of xsldbg
>
> Now, I tried to locate and install libxslt via urpmi,
but urpmi kindly
> informed me that it found three files containing
libxslt (namely libxslt1,
> libxslt-proc and libxslt1-devel) and that all three are
already installed.
> I also tried to make and make install anyway... stupid
me, obviously.
>
> Guys, I'm stuck: any good soul knowing how to get out
of this mud? Thanks
> in advance.
>
Here's the problem. When building a program you need to
reference the *.h 
header files from programs you will link to so you can have
the prototype for 
those calls. Those header files are in all the source
packages as they are 
essential to build those programs. They take up 76M on my
system with 
everything under the sun on it and built from source... So
you can see why 
your several GB install needed to trim down to fit on your
100 GB disk, NOT. 
Sorry this practice was started by Red Hat and copied by all
RPM distros and 
since it makes no sense to save the space of a few dozen
digital photos the 
only explanation is that people like you will give up and
just run the 
approved RPMs... I call it passive lock in because you're
not quite to open 
source yet, just approved binaries. 

Speaking of which there most certainly is an RPM available.
There is no way a 
program this popular that is part of the main packages
doesn't have one. If 
you can't find it try http://rpmfind.net. Don't
forget that RPM sucks! You 
have to match your distro and exact release number or
installing it could be 
a failure, if not a disaster.

If you want to build from source, which I did so much I gave
up on RPMs and 
went for a source based distro, then you need to find the
"-dev" RPMs for 
every package it says is missing. It's funny nobody has made
the configure 
message more helpful. Maybe they hoped distributions might
someday develop a 
sane attitude toward users building from source.

I suggest you complain to Mandriva for not making Quanta
part of the base 
packages, if not for continuing the stupid practice of
extracting header 
files during RPM packaging.
-- 
Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader 
http://quanta.kdewebdev.o
rg
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