<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 18:47, Ollie Oberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ollie@jhu.edu">ollie@jhu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I've had a few similar problems installing under Leopard. "shell command failed" errors often were the result of something going wrong with pkg-config. I would recommend trying to install xfig from source (if available) and seeing what the output is </blockquote>
<div><br>Note that "shell command failed" there means exactly one thing: the Tcl command to execute a shell command got back a nonzero exit status. It doesn't even tell you what the exit status was, much less what caused the error.<br>
<br>Also, xmkmf does not generally run pkg-config. It *does* run imake, however, and I am not under the impression that the imake information for Xquartz is considered generally usable; in fact, these days I'm not sure it's very usable on any platform (it was pretty badly bitrotted on Linux even 10 years ago).<br>
<br>Your best bet may be to find a modern version of the program which doesn't depend on xmkmf/imake.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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