[PD] re: tcl/tk problems

[nick phillips]

hi,

thanks for the reply - i did indeed try that tk-symlink but it didn't help
unfortunately. after many hours fooling around with the makefile i
eventually remembered i had been using pd-035 in my previous installation,
so i grabbed the source for that - it compiled with no problems, recognized
my tcl/tk headers and X11, and was up and running within minutes (which was
the experience i had installing pd the first time around, which is why these
new problems were so frustrating!) in any case, pd is now up and running
with the same cpu use as before, so for now i'll leave it be. maybe later
i'll try and figure out why the pd-036 makefiles are having such a hard time
on my system...

in any case, thanks,

np

> 
> Hallo,
> nick phillips hat gesagt: // nick phillips wrote:
> 
>> i'm having some problems with a pd installation on a debian woody system
>> (2.4.20 kernel) which i'm having a hard time fixing. i've managed to install
>> pd on linux successfully several times on this same machine, but i recently
>> had a hard drive failure and have had to reinstall everything. now when i
>> run ./configure from the pd/src directory i get error messages about "no X11
>> found" 
> 
> This is bad, X11 should be found, I guess.
> 
>> and "no tcl/tk header found." I have both installed on my system - X
>> is in the usual /etc/X11 directory and tcl/tk is in /usr/include/tcl8.3h.
>> i've tried adding a softlink to tk.h in my /usr/include directory but still
>> pd can't find my tcl/tk headers.
> 
> I remember, I had to set that link on Debian, too, like
> /usr/include/tk.h -> /usr/include/tcl8.3/tk.h
> 
>> where is pd searching? do i need to add softlinks to another
>> directory or add a qualifier to ./configure? any help would be
>> appreciated, i'm a little stuck at the moment!
> 
> Actually I never had any problem besides this tk-symlink on Debian.
> Could you post the file config.log (gzipped) after a configure-run?
> 
>> (as an aside, i downloaded a beta debian package of pd
>> (pd_0.35.0-test11_i386.deb) which installed ok.
> 
> You should try to get pd_0.36, but maybe that's what you're trying
> anyways. pd_0.35 is old, but pd_0.35-test11 is way old and it might be
> one of those test versions with more bugs...
> ciao
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