Building MacPorts on a Linux system

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Oct 18 17:24:35 PDT 2009


On 2009-10-19 11:10, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 00:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 23:17, Sumner Trammell wrote:
>>>
>>>> checking objc/objc.h usability... no
>>>> checking objc/objc.h presence... no
>>>> checking for objc/objc.h... no
>>>> configure: error: Can't locate Objective C runtime headers
> 
> 
> As it happens, I want to install MacPorts on Linux today. I encountered
> the above error, and got by it with "--without-objc-runtime
> --without-objc-foundation", as mentioned previously in this thread. But
> then I ran into this:
> 
> 
> checking for Tcl configuration... configure: error: Can't find Tcl
> configuration definitions
> 
> 
> I believe this is looking for tclConfig.sh, but I can find no such file
> on the system I'm using (though some kind of tcl must be there because
> tclsh exists and seems to work). Is this system's tcl hopelessly
> inadequate or is there a way around this?

Probably need to install a tcl-dev package?

- Josh


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