If you want this bug to be remembered, submit a bug report.

As for configure, its not so bad for most things, but it can be strange. Mostly, its just like writing a shell script. I would be easy to make it test for both tcl84 and tcl8.4, for example. If you actually read the pd/src/configure.in, I think you'll be able to make the change quite easiler.

.hc

On May 30, 2006, at 3:21 PM, mal content wrote:

Hello.

./configure fails on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7 because the script looks in /usr/include and /usr/lib when tcl/tk is usually installed (via ports) into /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.

The script also tests for linkage against the tcl and tk libraries with the -ltcl8.X and -ltk8.X flags, when for no apparent reason, FreeBSD names the libraries:

libtcl84.so (-ltcl84) libtk84.so (-ltk84)

Don't you just love unnecessary breakage of standard file paths?

I'd submit a patch for the configure script, unfortunately, I don't understand autoconf at all and going by some of the stories I've heard from other devs, I really don't want to understand it...

cheers, MC

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