I'm not flaming anyone. I'm stating a fact: this configure platform you all
are using is broken.
It allows to specify the location of tcl/tk. I've done that; both using
variables passed in, and by manually editing the makefile itself. Neither
of these solutions have worked, so now you require editing configure?
Configure produces a makefile. If I edit that very makefile, and to no
avail.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ben St-Pierre <benbon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Jai Dayal.
>
> Now, how would any competent programmer presumably like you would solve
> this problem?
>
> More precisely, here's the relevant bit from the makefile.conf:
>
> # TCL_INCLUDE, TCL_LIBRARY, TK_LIBRARY: these are the compiler options
> # needed for linking Scid with Tcl/Tk. The program "./configure"
> # will try to determine them automatically, but if it cannot, you
> # can use the examples below for help in setting these variables.
> #
> # @CONFIG_RESULT@
> #
> TCL_INCLUDE = @TCL_INCLUDE@
> TCL_LIBRARY = @TCL_LIBRARY@
> TK_LIBRARY = @TK_LIBRARY@
>
> ### Here are other commonly used settings for the Tcl/Tk compiler options:
>
> ### Linux (Red Hat and other distributions):
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk$(TCL_VERSION) -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
>
> ### Solaris:
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/local/tcl/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/local/tcl/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk$(TCL_VERSION)
>
> # Someone sent me these settings for SuSE Linux 6.1:
> ### Linux (SuSE distribution):
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/X11R6/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -L /usr/X11R6/lib -ltk$(TCL_VERSION) -lX11
>
> # Someone sent me these settings for FreeBSD with Tcl/Tk 8.0:
> ### FreeBSD:
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/local/include/tcl8.0 -I /usr/local/include/tk8.0
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/local/lib -ltcl80 -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk80 -L /usr/X11/lib -lX11
> TCL_INCLUDE = @TCL_INCLUDE@
> TCL_LIBRARY = @TCL_LIBRARY@
> TK_LIBRARY = @TK_LIBRARY@
>
> ### Here are other commonly used settings for the Tcl/Tk compiler options:
>
> ### Linux (Red Hat and other distributions):
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk$(TCL_VERSION) -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
>
> ### Solaris:
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/local/tcl/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/local/tcl/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk$(TCL_VERSION)
>
> # Someone sent me these settings for SuSE Linux 6.1:
> ### Linux (SuSE distribution):
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/X11R6/include
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/lib -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION) -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -L /usr/X11R6/lib -ltk$(TCL_VERSION) -lX11
>
> # Someone sent me these settings for FreeBSD with Tcl/Tk 8.0:
> ### FreeBSD:
> # TCL_INCLUDE = -I /usr/local/include/tcl8.0 -I /usr/local/include/tk8.0
> # TCL_LIBRARY = -L /usr/local/lib -ltcl80 -ldl
> # TK_LIBRARY = $(TCL_LIBRARY) -ltk80 -L /usr/X11/lib -lX11
>
> What would be the settings for your own Linux flavour?
>
> ***
>
> Then, any competent programmer like you should be able to update the
> configure script:
>
> # This program tries to determine system-specific details needed
> # for compiling Scid (such as the version of Tcl/Tk you have
> # installed, and where to find the Tcl/Tk header and library
> # files), and creates the file "Makefile".
>
>
> # Try to find the most recent version of Tcl/Tk 8.x that is installed,
> # by searching the PATH directories for tclsh8.3, tclsh83, etc. If no
> # tclsh program with a version number in the file name is found, the
> # default program to execute is just tclsh.
> # The backslashes at the end of these lines are needed: \
> # tclsh=tclsh8.5;
>
> # This shell script code did not work for me in Linux so it is
> # commented out for now; the configure script will just run in
> # tclsh even if there is a more recent version.
> ## for tclver in 80 8.0 81 8.1 82 8.2 83 8.3 84 8.4 85 8.5; do \
> ## IFS=:; \
> ## for dir in $PATH; do \
> ## if [ -x $dir/tclsh$tclver ]; then tclsh=$dir/tclsh$tclver; fi; \
> ## done; \
> ## done
>
> # Now execute this script using the best tclsh version found:
> # The backslash at the end of this line is needed: \
> exec tclsh "$0" ${1+"$@"}
>
> ***
>
> Alternatively, there's of course the possibility to teach us how to
> automatize all this with Autoconf.
>
> I'm sure any competent programmer should be able to produce a robust
> solution in a few minutes.
>
> ***
>
> On a personal note, I have no idea why a newly minted PHDs would flame
> anyone on a mailing list.
>
> Mailing lists might survive many nuclear winters.
>
>
>
>
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