Feature Requests item #1536160, was opened at 2006-08-07 17:11 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478073&aid=1536160...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: puredata Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: ClaudiusMaximus (claudiusmaximus) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: ./configure --disable-gui for headless machines
Initial Comment: It is possible to build pd and utils without pd-gui, on machines without X/tk installed, as hinted at here:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2002-02/004496.html
However, it isn't straightforward. I had to:
---- cd src ./configure make pd ../bin/pd-watchdog \ ../bin/pdsend ../bin/pdreceive externs
[...then edit the "install" target of makefile to remove the dependency on "all" and the lines that install gui-related stuff, and then...]
make install ----
It would be wonderful if these steps could be automated by a configure flag that could be used like:
./configure --disable-gui
Or even detect if Tk is not installed and in that case don't attempt to compile/install pd-gui, but I think an explicit flag would be sufficient (as users on systems with seperate tk and tk-dev packages could get confused at pd-gui not being compiled).
Thanks for your attention,