2.3.3 build fails on Linux

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 28 Nov, 2014, at 12:08, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:

>> > What would be best to troubleshoot, the terminal output from configure, or
>> > config.log ?
>> 
>> Configure output and config.log.
> 
> Both attached in a zip archive. Thanks.

Problem is
 checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
Why does the check for the Apple Objective-C runtime succeed on your Linux system?
Where does the objc/objc-api.h header come from on your system? Do we need to
adjust our check?


> I'm thinking that would depend on what exactly my problem is. If it's a missing
> tcl dependency, the issue ought to disappear when using an existing tcl
> interpreter.

No, the issue isn't related to Tcl. It's MacPorts' Makefiles that add the offending
-framework flags when the Apple Objective-C runtime is detected. There might be
other issues related to Tcl, but you haven't encountered any yet, so I'd not jump
to conclusions and try to use a different Tcl than MacPorts' bundled copy (which
works just fine on Linux).


> I noticed about 8.6 so installed tcl 8.5 explicitly because of that. Tcl 8.4 is
> still listed as a compatible version, though!

Well, we should update that documentation then -- Tcl 8.4 can no longer be used to
run MacPorts code.


> It's been ages since I did anything with tcl other than a tiny bit of hacking
> (and editing Portfiles :)). I guess that is because tcl has no central
> repository like Python's "site-packages"? (Which would explain why the
> tcl-thread is not offered in tcl 8.4, 8.5 etc. variants.)

It does, but MacPorts doesn't install there (because that would make having multiple
copies of MacPorts rather hard...)

-- 
Clemens