> Hello,
>
> I've been unofficially maintaining KDE3 (with help from a few others) for
> Mandriva for over a year now and i'm currently trying to upgrade my
> packages using the Trinity 3.5.12 sources. I've managed to get
> tqtinterface, arts and kdelibs to build sucessfully, but kdebase is
> failing while trying to build kappfinder with an error I can't solve. I've
> included the build log.
>
> - TQT is detected by the configure script
> - I have added --enable-closure to the configure command
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Tim W
>

That is definitely an Automake problem.  Are you using SVN or the 3.5.12
tarballs?

I have run into that problem before, basically ever since an unknown
update to Auomake/Autoconf/etc. occurred.  Robert is correct in that CMake
will replace Automake soon, and will definitely be preferred in the
future.

For some reason, $(LIB_QT) is not being added to the LD_ADD string during
processing of Makefile.am files.  I don't know why this is; I do know that
it is platform dependent and that building still works on Debian
Lenny/Debian Squeeze, but is broken under Ubuntu Maverick.

Tim