Installing QT-3.0.4 and KDE 3 from CVS source

Files	Location
qt-x11-free-x.x.x.tar.gz	www.trolltech.com
libxslt	http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html
libxml2	http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
http://www.rpm.org/	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x

Notes

The default installs are located in /usr/lib/qt-xxx  

QT

To install the latest version

unpack the tar.gz file to /usr/lib/qt-x11-free-3.0.4

ln -sf /usr/lib/qt-x11-free-3.0.4 /usr/lib/qt
tar -zxvf qt-x11-free-3.0.4.tar.gz

cd qt-x11-free-3.0.4

# the QTDIR for when you compile is your source directory
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt

./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/qt \
-thread \
-no-xinerama \
-system-zlib \
-system-libpng \
-system-libjpeg \
-system-libmng

make

make install

Location of system wide QTDIR environment settings (in RedHat 7.x) 

If you are looking for where the QTDIR env variable is set in redhat 7.x... it is in /etc/profile.d/qt.sh or qt.csh if you use the C shell.

edit /etc/profile.d/qt.sh

# Qt initialization script (sh)

if [ -z "$QTDIR" ] ; then

        # QTDIR="/usr/lib/qt.2.3.1"

        QTDIR="/usr/lib/qt"

fi

export QTDIR

Setting up Environment for KDE

export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686"
export CPPFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686"
export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686"
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib
export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH

ARTS

KDELIBS 

CVS: libxml2 and libxslt troubles in kdelibs

KDEBASE