Re: installing: stuck in tcl/tk

[Morgan R. Tamplin]

Hello,
Thanks to Alex for advice below, sent to the last email.   
Unfortunately, I have found out that tcl/tk8.4 does not work with BLT.   
I am resorting to the earlier version, which is available from fink.

I have since installed all the libraries required by swarm using  
FinkCommander.  Everything appears to be where it should and it's the  
version numbers stated on the swarm site..  When I run the configure  
script it gets stuck at this line:

> checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
> checking for tclsh8.3... yes
> checking directory of tcl.h... /sw/include
> checking directory and version of libtcl... no
> configure: error: Please specify Tcl library path using --with-tcldir

I run configure like this
./configure --with-defaultdir=/sw --with-tcldir=/sw  
--with-tcllibname=libtcl.dylib

Fink puts everything it installs into the /sw directory, which is  
structured much like /usr (contains bin, include local...).  The /sw  
directory used by fink is also part of the $path variable.  The  
previous output from configure show it finding things like X11, which  
also live in /sw.  The switches used with configure don't seem to make  
any difference to being able to find libtcl.  It acts the same without  
them.

Have I got those --with directories correct?  I take the instructions  
to mean that the variable is the directory directly above the lib and  
include directories that house tcl, etc.  In this case, /sw.  So far,  
my best guess is that I've misunderstood what goes in the directory  
variable.

Morgan



On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 04:16 PM, Perrone Alessandro wrote:

> Hi
> > I am running the configure script for the latest snapshot of swarm to  
> > install it on a Mac running Xfree86 and OroborosX with OS10.2.  I  
> > have tcl/tk8.4.0 installed.  Unfortunately, the configure script only  
> > looks for 8.3 and earlier.  The 8.4 version has installed everything  
> > by default in the /usr/local/ paths.  in this install there does not  
> > appear to be a tclsh link to the the tclsh8.4 executable.
> Why do not use the ./configure --prefix=/neededdir during the  
> cmpilation of all software?
> I use this tips (my directory is /home/alex/swarm) so in that  
> directory I have either the needed software, either the swarm >  
> libaries.
> Hope this help
>                                 ALEX
>
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Morgan R. Tamplin
Electronics & Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh
IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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