Re: ChickenEgg: XF4 needs Tk, Tk needs X libs (Building from Source)

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:13:31PM -0400, Ullrich 'Jason' Haag wrote:
> (Sorry for cross posting, not quite sure which group this fits in)
> 
> I am trying to build XF4 from scratch, with no previous X versions on the
> system (2.9).
> I got the XF4 sources.
> I tried to build. Fails demanding Tcl.
> Installed Tcl from ports tree.
> Tried to build again. Fails demanding Tk.
> Tried to install Tk:
> Fails, X headers missing [output see below]
> 
> "man 8 release" tells me that XF86Setup on my i386 system is the culprit
> needing Tcl/Tk, but it only says to install from the ports tree...
> Since the X headers are (presumably) in the XF4 sources, how can I tell the
> Tk make process to look for them there? (I probably could install the
> pre-compiled packages of Tcl/Tk, but somehow that would feel like
> cheating...)

the precompiled packages won't work, since they need the shared X11 libs.
My solution was actually simpler than matt's:  I simply ran make -k build 
to do everything that didn't depend on Tk, then make clean && make build 
to build a 'complete' install.

ports@ removed, not really appropriate.  Please DON'T crosspost queries
between groups, it's almost never appropriate.

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