On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:18:56 +0200, Speek wrote: > When running in ch 5.10 (Expect) ./configure --prefix=/tools --with- tcl=/ > tools/ lib --with-x=no, an error occurs: checking for Tcl private > headers... checking for tclInt.h... no configure: error: Can't find Tcl > private headers > > Building and installing tcl seemed to go fine. I did not remove the tcl > source directory. Any ideas?
>From Don Porter in the lfs-dev list: Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the Tcl programming language. Lately we're seeing a small but increasing number of bug reports submitted against Tcl coming from people attempting to follow the Linux From Scratch outline. I looked briefly at the online LFS instructions, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ and it appears that Tcl is the first software package compile that is attempted after the "adjustment of the toolchain". In the bug reports we receive, it's clear that the problem is that fundamental parts of the C library ( memcmp(), strstr(), etc.) are not found when the configure/compile is attempted. This suggests to me that something has gone wrong with the toolchain adjustment step, and the LFS user has a system that isn't working sufficiently well for building Tcl. I see that at the end of the "Adjusting the Toolchain" section, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/adjusting.html a simple test is provided to check whether the toolchain adjustment was completed successfully. Would it be possible to enhance that test so that the ability to link against glibc and run programs using glibc is also tested? A test and failure at that point would help LFS users get on the right track earlier, and would spare the Tcl developers getting sent these bogus bug reports. Thanks for whatever help/advice you can offer, and if this message is misdirected, please offer guidance where else I should send it. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
