newbie question

Jason Harris <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:29:53 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.darwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

I am the lead developer of KStars, the KDE planetarium.  I'd like to be 
able to work on KStars on my powerbook, but I can't seem to get things 
compiled.  I have installed the latest kde-darwin release, and checked 
out the kdeedu and kde-common modules from KDE CVS.

I can configure and compile just fine, but when it gets to the linker 
stage, I get this error:

/bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++  
-Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith 
-Wwrite-strings -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common 
-DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT 
-DQT_NO_TRANSLATION    -o kvoctrain -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
-L/usr/local/qt/lib -L/opt/kde/lib  -R /opt/kde/lib -R 
/usr/local/qt/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib kva_io.o kvoctrain.o 
kvoctrainview.o rowtable.o main.o kva_init.o kva_config.o kva_header.o 
kva_clip.o kva_query.o prefs.o ./docprop-dialogs/libdocpropdlg.la 
./entry-dialogs/libentrydlg.la ./kvt-core/libkvoctraincore.la 
./kvt-core/kvt-xml/libkvtxml.la ./option-dialogs/liboptiondlg.la 
./query-dialogs/libquerydlg.la 
./queryoption-dialogs/libqueryoptiondlg.la 
./statistik-dialogs/libstatdlg.la ./common-dialogs/libcommondlg.la 
-lkhtml
libtool: link: cannot find the library `'

(this example is for kvoctrain, but I see a similar message for 
everything I've tried).

Does it look familiar to anyone?  Why is it looking for an "empty" 
library name?

I thought maybe the generated libtool is invalid, so I tried applying 
the admin patch tarball linked in the wiki, but this causes a failure 
at "make -f Makefile.cvs", even if I use an admin directory from March 
2004 (matching the timestamp on the patch).

thanks for any info,

Jason