i dont remember well, some libraries seem to be missing ... whas it tcl maybe?. I will try later again and copy the error to post it to the list. its a pitty because Ubuntu looks quite nice but i have tried compiling PD, Audacity, wxpython, and none works. its gonna take me time to make it work.
Maybe first try to compile "hello world" (apt-get install hello), then this more complicated packages? (I'm not joking.)
first i need to configure my modem properly ... But i will try "hello world" first to test when i manage to get online - if internet still exists by the time i get it working :)
It sounds like you don't have the "-dev" packages for the libraries install, which are needed by those source packages. Compiling should work with apt-get (again) if you do a
the error is about some tcl header I paste it at the end of the mail, i couldnt copy it, but i checked and i do have tcl 8.4 installed, weird, maybe is not the whole thing and there are as you say some packages missing?. I will email to the ubuntu mailing list to see if i can get a better picture of the problem.
thanks to all for the tips
r2d2@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pd-0.37-4/src $ ./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for pid_t... yes checking for size_t... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking malloc.h usability... yes checking malloc.h presence... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking bstring.h usability... no checking bstring.h presence... no checking for bstring.h... no checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking return type of signal handlers... void checking for vprintf... yes checking for _doprnt... no checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for select... yes checking for socket... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking for sin in -lffm... no checking for sin in -lm... yes checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking for X... no checking for XCreateWindow in -lX11... no no X11 found checking tcl.h usability... no checking tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl.h... no checking tcl8.7/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.7/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.7/tcl.h... no checking tcl8.6/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.6/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.6/tcl.h... no checking tcl8.5/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.5/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.5/tcl.h... no checking tcl8.4/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.4/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.4/tcl.h... no checking tcl8.3/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.3/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.3/tcl.h... no checking tcl8.2/tcl.h usability... no checking tcl8.2/tcl.h presence... no checking for tcl8.2/tcl.h... no no tcl header found