new developer needs help

[ashok pappu]

I am not sure why you are asking that question.  I am trying to do some
serious stuff in c++.  I have very little practical experience in c++
(and in QT) having done it only in school.  I have no experience
contributing to open source software.  I am very interested in learning
c++ and contributing to KDE.  so I started to build KDE and seek help.
If this is not the right place to start please advise. 
Thank you 
Ashok Pappu

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:45 +0200, Tom Albers wrote:
> Are you sure you want to try KDE4?
> 
> Toma
> 
> Op Friday 18 August 2006 00:23, schreef ashok pappu:
> > I think I already installed it on my machine.
> >
> > pappua at gator:~$ sudo apt-get install libungif4-dev
> > Password:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > libungif4-dev is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:07 +0200, Matthias Lechner wrote:
> > > Hi Ashok,
> > >
> > > welcome to KDE development :-)
> > > The reason why cmake fails is
> > > "gif;libgif;ungif;libungif;giflib.
> > >  -- Found no acceptable GIF library. This is fatal."
> > >
> > > So you have to install for example libungif4-dev.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Matthias
> > >
> > > Am Donnerstag, 17. August 2006 02:59 schrieb ashok pappu:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >                 I am trying to build kde on ubuntu according to
> > > >         instructions on
> > > >                 this web
> > > >                 page http://developer.kde.org/build/trunk.html and I am
> > > >         running
> > > >                 to this
> > > >                 issues.  Can some one please help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                 kdedev at gator:~/kdelibs/build$ cmake
> > > >         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=
> > > >                 $KDEDIR ..
> > > >                 -- Found Qt-Version 4.2.0-snapshot-20060701
> > > >                 -- Building kdelibs...
> > > >                 -- have_visibility: 1 version>=4.1: FALSE bad alloctor:
> > > >         FALSE
> > > >                 -- Found KDE4 kconfig_compiler
> > > >
> > > >         preprocessor:
> > > > /home/kdedev/kdelibs/build/bin/./kconfig_compiler.sh -- Found JPEG:
> > > > /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
> > > >                 -- Looked for GIF libraries named
> > > >                 gif;libgif;ungif;libungif;giflib.
> > > >                 -- Found no acceptable GIF library. This is fatal.
> > > >                 CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> > > >                 /home/kdedev/kdelibs/cmake/modules/FindGIF.cmake:40:
> > > >                 MESSAGE Could NOT find GIF
> > > >                 Current CMake
> > > >
> > > >         stack:
> > > > /home/kdedev/kdelibs/khtml/CMakeLists.txt;/home/kdedev/kdelibs/cmake/mo
> > > >dule s/FindGIF.cmake -- Configuring done
> > > >                 Thanks
> > > >                 Ashok Pappu
>