[PD-dev] [bug] FreeBSD configure fails

[mal content]

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.

>
> > 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).

thanks
MC