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Re: host-side configury update


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:16:15AM +0100, Bart Veer wrote:
> >>>>> "Sergei" == Sergei Gavrikov <sg@belvok.com> writes:
> 
>     Sergei> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:48:51PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>     >> > I have also done some work on the Tcl/Tk detection, hopefully making
>     >> > it more robust.
>     >> 
>     >> Hi Bart
>     >> 
>     >> I'm trying on a Debian unstable machine with both tcl 8.3 and 8.4
>     >> development packages installed. The README.host suggests it is looking
>     >> for tclConfig.sh which i do have:
>     >> 
>     >> $ find /usr/lib -name tclConfig.sh
>     >> /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh
>     >> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh
>     >> 
>     >> and i've tried various --with-tcl-version and --with-tcl
>     >> 
>     >> but it always ends up in:
>     >> 
>     >> checking for Tcl installation... configure: error: unable to locate Tcl header file tcl.h
>     >> 
>     >> Would it be possible to make the configuration script a bit more
>     >> verbose. Could it print the list of directories it is looking in for
>     >> the TclConfig.sh file? If it does find TclConfig.sh then where it is
>     >> looking for the tcl.h file? This extra information would help with
>     >> getting --with-tcl and --with-tcl-version correct and debugging TCL
>     >> configuration problems in general.
>     >> 
> 
>     Sergei> Bart, Andrew
> 
>     Sergei> eCos M4 (acsupport/acinclude.m4) uses tclConfig.sh to find Tcl stuff and
>     Sergei> those rules believe what TCL_INC_DIR presents in tclConfig.sh, but,
>     Sergei> nowadays that is obsolete variable on some systems (for example, Debian,
>     Sergei> Ubuntu tcl8.{4,5}-dev packages):
> 
>     Sergei> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-tcltk-devel/2007-August/000072.html
>     Sergei> http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-patches/2008-03/msg00011.html
> 
> The updated macros in acsupport/acinclude.m4 already look for
> TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC as well as TCL_INC_DIR. I am working on a more
> verbose version of the macro, and trying to figure out why it is
> failing on Andrew's Debian install.

Ah, I see. Andrew, may be you broke eCos's configure files with GNU
autotools?

Is

  find . -name configure -printf "cvs diff %p\n" | sh

silent?


Sergei


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