[PD-dev] [bug] FreeBSD configure fails

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 31, 2006, at 6:27 PM, mal content wrote:

> On 31/05/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> Let's keep this on the list since it might be of general interest:
>
> Yes, I didn't realise that you'd added the CC: line, I didn't want
> to put what might have been intended as private mail on the list.
> Some people get quite explosive about that!
>
> :)
>
>>
>> On May 31, 2006, at 5:46 PM, mal content wrote:
>>
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > On 31/05/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If you want this bug to be remembered, submit a bug report.
>> >
>> > I wanted to do that, but I couldn't work out where to submit a
>> > report.
>>
>> http://puredata.org/dev/bugtracker
>>
>> Or find it in the nav bar on the left "developers -> bug tracker"
>>
>> >> As for configure, its not so bad for most things, but it can be
>> >> strange.  Mostly, its just like writing a shell script.  I  
>> would be
>> >> easy to make it test for both tcl84 and tcl8.4, for example.   
>> If you
>> >> actually read the pd/src/configure.in, I think you'll be able  
>> to make
>> >> the change quite easiler.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I had a look in configure.in first of all, and I saw the lines:
>> >
>> > if test $foundit == "no";
>> > then
>> >    AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl.h,foundit=yes,)
>> > fi
>> > if test $foundit == "no";
>> > then
>> >    AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl8.7/tcl.h,
>> >        GUIFLAGS="$GUIFLAGS -I/usr/include/tcl8.7";foundit=yes,)
>> > fi
>> > if test $foundit == "no";
>> > then
>> >    AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl8.6/tcl.h,
>> >        GUIFLAGS="$GUIFLAGS -I/usr/include/tcl8.6";foundit=yes,)
>> > fi
>> > if test $foundit == "no";
>> > then
>> >    AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl8.5/tcl.h,
>> >        GUIFLAGS="$GUIFLAGS -I/usr/include/tcl8.5";foundit=yes,)
>> > fi
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Now, I could add another check for tcl in /usr/local (about 30  
>> lines).
>> > It's not pretty, but it'd work.
>>
>> Just add it to the bottom, its already not pretty, so no real harm  
>> done.
>
> Right, I'll submit a patch to the bug tracker.

Excellent, just be sure to use "diff -uw" format.


>> > The problem is that the same check doesn't occur for the library:
>> >
>> > AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.7, main,,
>> >    AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.6, main,,
>> >        AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.5, main,,
>> >            AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.4, main,,
>> >                AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.3, main,,
>> >                    AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl8.2, main,,
>> >
>> > How do I instruct AC_CHECK_LIB to check /usr/local as well?
>>
>> This is already in one of the Pd-extended patches (packages/patches/
>> mingw_fixes-0.39-2.patch) and I think its been incorporated into
>> Miller's CVS code.  It should check in /usr/local automatically
>> since /usr/local is generally part of the standard path.  But on GNU/
>> Linux, Tcl/Tk is generally installed into /usr/bin.
>
> I think the problem is actually that the script looks for libtcl8.X  
> instead
> of libtcl8X. FreeBSD renamed it. I'm not sure who should be  
> responsible
> for that one (FreeBSD with compatibility symlinks or pd with extra  
> configure
> code).


MinGW also uses the names without dots, so I mean that the MinGW  
fixes include searching for libtcl84

.hc


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