[GRASSLIST:5434] Re: grass5.0.1 and tcltk on macOSX

[Glynn Clements]

John Cartwright wrote:

> I'm trying to compile grass5.0.1 on macOS 10.2 and am having trouble with
> the tk library.  Here's the relevant output form the compile statement:
> 
> checking whether to use Tcl/Tk... yes
> checking for location of Tcl/Tk includes... /sw/include
> checking for tcl.h... yes
> checking for tk.h... yes
> checking Tcl version... 8.3
> checking Tk version... 8.3
> checking for location of Tcl/Tk library...
> checking for Tcl_Init in -ltcl... yes
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk... no
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk... no
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk8.3... no
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk8.3... no
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk83... no
> checking for Tk_MainWindow in -ltk83... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate Tk library.
> 
> I used fink to install the three tcltk packages:
>  i   tcltk            8.3.4-1      Tool Command Language and the Tk toolkit.
>  i   tcltk-dev        8.3.4-1      Tool Command Language and the Tk toolkit.
>  i   tcltk-shlibs     8.3.4-1      Tool Command Language and the Tk toolkit.
> 
> And indeed do see wish and the tk shared library (libtk8.3.dylib).
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way around this problem?

If configure fails to detect a library which you know is installed,
check the config.log for error messages; the ones at the end of the
file are what's relevant.

The most common reason for such problems is that the library requires
some other library which isn't installed.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>