[Xotcl] xotcl 0.9 for linux debian

From: Catherine Letondal <letondal_at_pasteur.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:09:45 +0100

Dear XOtcl list,

I have some problems to install the latest xotcl version on a linux debian
platform. The current debian package is 0.85 and I would really like to install 0.9.

So I have tried to install the full source distribution
(http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xotcl-full-0.9.3.tar.gz), but, as tcl/tk debian
include installation is in the same directory (/usr/include/tcl8.3), it's difficult
to tell configure how to deal with it.

1) I have tried:
        ./configure
but the tcl configuration directory is not found:
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: warning: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions

2) Then I have tried:
        ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.3 --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.3

but, when running make:

cc -DVERSION=\"0.9\" -DXOTCL_LIBRARY=\"/usr/local/lib/xotcl0.9/library\" -I/usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl-private/generic -I/usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl-private/unix -I"./../generic" -I"./../unix" -I"/usr/include" -g -O -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC -g -DXOLIBPKG=\"/usr/local/lib/xotcl0.9\" -DXOTCLVERSION=\"0.9\" -DXOTCLPATCHLEVEL=\".3\" -c `echo ../unix/xotkAppInit.c` -o o/xotkAppInit.o
../unix/xotkAppInit.c:19: tk.h: No such file or directory
../unix/xotkAppInit.c:31: #error Tk distribution TOO OLD

3) And I get the same error when telling configure where to actually find tk.h
(in /usr/include/tcl8.3) :

./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.3 --with-tk=/usr/include/tcl8.3
cc -DVERSION=\"0.9\" -DXOTCL_LIBRARY=\"/usr/local/lib/xotcl0.9/library\" -I/usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl-private/generic -I/usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl-private/unix -I"./../generic" -I"./../unix" -I"/usr/include" -g -O -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC -g -DXOLIBPKG=\"/usr/local/lib/xotcl0.9\" -DXOTCLVERSION=\"0.9\" -DXOTCLPATCHLEVEL=\".3\" -c `echo ../unix/xotkAppInit.c` -o o/xotkAppInit.o
../unix/xotkAppInit.c:19: tk.h: No such file or directory
../unix/xotkAppInit.c:31: #error Tk distribution TOO OLD
make[1]: *** [o/xotkAppInit.o] Error 1

4) I have also tried to specify both include and library, as told by configure --help:
        ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.3 --with-tk=/usr/include/tcl8.3,/usr/lib/tk8.3
but the syntax is not recognized?


So my question is: is there a debian package going to be distributed for the 0.9 version?
Does this ditribution contain the necessary .h, or is there a xotcl-dev distribution?
Or, could someone help?

Thanks a lot in advance,

-- 
Catherine Letondal -- Pasteur Institute Computing Center