[GRASSLIST:2890] Re: Problems compiling 5.0 from CVS tree

[Eric G. Miller]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:47:30 +0200, Henk Coetzee <henkc at geoscience.org.za> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have an almost up to date CVS tree and am trying to compile grass5 on 
> a Mandrake 8.1 system. I have done this off a source tarball. all goes 
> well in the configure until I get to:
> 
> checking whether to use Tcl/Tk... yes
> checking for location of Tcl/Tk includes...
> checking for tcl.h... yes
> checking for tk.h... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate Tk includes.
> 
> This is strange, as:
> 
> [root at hanepoot grass]# find /usr/include -name tk.h
> /usr/include/tk.h
> 
> Does anyone know what is happening here.

That looks suspiciously like you've checked out the main branch of the
CVS tree.  For various reasons, the main branch is actually not the
most current.  Try doing the following, and then run configure again.

$ cvs update -dP -r releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0


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Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>