What is dcopidl and why is it wanted? 1

[wilville]

I am trying to build a piece of software to run under KDE. It claims to want both a program dcopidl and a program dcopidl2cpp. It then suggests that KDE was not properly installed when it can't find these. But no KDE functionality seems to be missing and a precompilked version of the program seems to run just fine without it. Any insight as to what it is, what it does, and where I should find the files? I do not find any sources that appear to be it, as such, nor do I find a program or module by those names in any of the KDE install materials that I have. ???

Thanks!!
Wilville (Who has a brother Orbur)
"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

 

[ericbrunson]

You don't mention your distro (usually an important piece of information). Under Fedora you have to install the KDE development packages to get those utilities. Specifically. kdelibs-devel.

 

[wilville]

Eric -

You're right... my bad for not giving the distro. Sorry 'bout that. BUT, you were abolutely right, it was the kde-devel package that did it. And now I also see what this is ... a compiler of sorts for the configuration language. Could be pretty useful.

For the record, this was on Red Hat Enterprise 3.

Thanks!!!
Wilville (Who has a brother Orbur.)
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.