Hi, I am reporting something that never happened to me before. I wanted to try out kde2,2beta1 for Mandrake 8.0. After trying unsuccessfully to download an uncorrupted binary rpm for kdelibs, I decided to compile from sources. I downloaded the source for kdelibs 2.2beta1 and tried compiling it on Mandrake 8.0 at home. The sources compiled using the: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared, make -k all, make -k install with lots of parse errors originating from the file /usr/include/netinet/in.h. I also had a couple of errors on "no rule to make target in kdeui and kdecore. Finally however, I found that the shared libraries have not been built and I am back to square one -- cannot download binary without corruption and cannot build properly from sources. What is most baffling is that the same sources compiled flawlessly on a Red Hat 6.2 machine in my office. Are there some unresolved issues with gcc 2.96 and is there an easy way of getting around these? I already have libxml, PCRE, libSDL installed on my machine. Do I need to compile something else before compiling kdelibs in order to get the shared libraries? Am I missing something? Any tips would be very welcome. Thanks in advance, Arnab
