KDE 2 recompiles on Slackware
 
From: Myles Green <mylesg@telusplanet.net>

first make a backup of /opt/kde

cp -Rp /opt/kde /opt/kde.sav

start with qt-2.3.1 - slackware puts it in /usr/lib/qt-2.3.1 with a link to /usr/lib/qt so, move or rename /usr/lib/qt-2.3.1 out of the way and unpack the qt sources in /usr/lib and make sure the link is still there, if not create it (ln -s /usr/lib/qt-2.3.1 /usr/lib/qt). build qt. use the same build options slackware used here by looking in the sources directory at ftp.slackware.com - you'll find the qt build script under pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/source/kde/qt2/ called qt.build. if you are not interested in Anti Aliased fonts use qt.build-noxft. FWIW, i just
used the as supplied by slackware qt2 package with AA enabled

next: kdelibs

there is no more kdesupport so this is now the first one to build. i used this for ALL the kde packages:

./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt --disable-debug && make && make install

NB: by default the ./configure script uses the /opt/kde prefix, this is where you want it. also, if you've lots of ram you could add the
--enable-final flag to ./configure... i've never had much success using that myself but, as always, YMMV.

next: kdebase

followed by the rest in any order EXCEPT for kdeaddons, do that one last. i also upgraded koffice at this time.

although i had installed all the i18 packages when i initially installed slack 8, i had problems building the kde-i18 stuff and still haven't
gotten it to complete... not that i'm really trying very hard, after all i only speak english =)

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