D-BUS/Qt3 bindings

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> whilst trying to build knetworkmanager from KDE svn, on FC5, I get
>>
>> configure: WARNING: You need D-BUS/Qt3 bindings
>>
>> during ./configure
>>
>> Do we have FC5 rpms for these D-BUS/Qt3 bindings ? Could find anything 
>> via yum search
> 
> 
> In short, No.
> 
> Long story (as I understand it): the dbus-qt3 bindings were recently 
> removed from upsgream dbus due to lack of maintainership.  So, the 
> version of dbus on fc5 is new enough to not even include those bindings. 
>  The good news is that there is a new dbus-qt maintainer (for both qt3 
> and qt4), but the new qt3 bindings aren't binary compatible with the old 
> ones, and aren't distributed with dbus.  So the question is, does 
> kentworkmanager need/use the old no-longer-available dbus/qt3 bindings, 
> or is it asking for the new (not-yet-available) dbus/qt3  bindings?


You may want to ask on the dbus mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus
They should be able to provide a more definitive answer than me.  (:


-- Rex