On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote:
>     Now, James, when you installed the system did you select
> "Development" ?  Without those additions to your system you probly
> can't compile anything.
>
>      Other questions:  are you just doin all this as an exercise?
> an why don't you just use Mandrakes' pre-compiled packages for
> kdeutils?   IOW's, what are you tryin to accomplish?
Hello,

        I have the Mandrake 6-disc set, so I have these binaries, and don't 
need to compile anything.  Having just successfully 'hatched' 
kdeutils...src.rpm (I downloaded a new one), with rpmbuild [thanks to 
all of you, and I certainly didn't intend to set off any controversy.  
I'll have to read these man pages)

        Inasmuch as I doesn't really have a prayer of understanding C++, or 
the maze of linked header files, etc. (most of my programing 
knowledge in Linux and C comes from "Learning C in 28 days") this was 
all an exercise.  Its genesis comes from my fondness of Kedit.  It 
seems like a really simple program, and I thought that it might be 
possible to change the behavior of its Tab key (i.e., how many spaces 
are printed when tab is presses."  So far in this exercise, I've 
discovered .kcfg files (hence Kcfgcreator, hence unsermake) and now 
rpmbuild, and kconfig_compiler, kconfigskeleton.h and kconfig.h (and 
I still haven't found anything that says "main").   As expected, I'm 
not really more enlightened as concerns my original goal, but I'm 
having fun.

        If you have any suggestions about books to teach the neophyte about 
program development (I know no 'object oriented' stuff, and am shaky 
on all the libs etc.)

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