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I am currently trying to install xgrafix from PTSG's website. Running configure within xgrafix folders I am running into a problem. It is stating that I must make sure Tcl/Tk is installed correctly and rerun the configure. I have tried remove and re-installing Tcl and Tk without having any luck.

Also, I tried to use different versions of Tcl/Tk in the event that it is not compatible with the most recent update. I am a beginner in using Linux so if you have any tips on how to fix it, that would be appreciated greatly.

configuring with options: --prefix=/usr/local --with-SCALAR=double --enable-fulloptimize --with-XGRAFIX-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-XGRAFIX-include=/usr/local/include 

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-XGRAFIX-lib, --with-XGRAFIX-include

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... mawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Using C++ compiler g++

Using C compiler gcc

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables... 

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for library containing strerror... none required

checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes

checking for BSD-compatible nm... 

/usr/bin/nm -B

Setting the flags per system and C++ compiler: g++

checking for g++... /usr/bin/g++

Serial C++ compiler is `g++'

checking g++ version... g++

configure: WARNING: Caution: version  is not known to work.

configure: WARNING: C++ compiler may generate code for this processor only.

checking for -fsquangle... no

checking how to build libraries... with ar cr  

checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc

Serial C compiler is `gcc'

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep

checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking for size_t... yes

checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h

checking whether c++ compiler supports exception handling... yes

checking whether c++ compiler supports typename... yes

checking whether c++ compiler can explicitly instantiate templates... yes

checking whether c++ compiler supports RTTI... yes

checking whether c++ compiler supports namespaces... yes

checking whether c++ compiler has complex in the namespace std... yes

checking whether c++ compiler has streams in the namespace std... yes

checking whether c++ compiler can overload const type conversions... yes

checking whether c++ compiler knows mutable... yes

checking whether template friends need brackets... yes

checking whether nontype template operators are allowed... no

checking whether static variables can be declared generally... yes

configure: WARNING: Fortran libraries will be invalid.

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking what the library suffix is... .a

checking how to install libraries... with ${INSTALL} -m 644

configure: WARNING: x11.m4 is obsolete.  Please use AC_PATH_X or AC_PATH_XTRA.

checking for X11/Xlib.h... /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h

checking for libX11.a... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.a

checking for libXpm.a... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXpm.a

checking for tclsh... /usr/bin/tclsh

checking for tclConfig.sh... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tclConfig.sh

checking for tkConfig.sh... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tkConfig.sh

checking for libtcl8.6.a... no

checking for libtcl8.6.so... no

configure: error: Make sure Tcl/Tk are installed correctly on your

 system and then rerun configure.

It seems like the provided configure script is incompatible with current systems. Running autoconf to generate a new script appears to fix the Tcl/Tk errors, but introduces other errors related to X11 includes and libraries.

I was finally able to get ./configure to complete by starting over with a freshly-unpacked tarball and setting explicit TCL_LIBDIR_PATH and TK_LIBDIR_PATH on the ./configure command line:

TCL_LIBDIR_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ 

TK_LIBDIR_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ 

./configure --with-tclsh=/usr/bin/tclsh8.5 

--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.5 

--with-tkconfig=/usr/lib/tk8.5

However, in spite of 8.5 being listed as one of the legal_tcl_versions, the make fails with a Tcl-related error

xgsetup.c: In function ‘XGSetupWindow’:

xgsetup.c:145:14: error: ‘Tcl_Interp’ has no member named ‘result’

     if(interp->result != NULL) {

              ^

xgsetup.c:146:27: error: ‘Tcl_Interp’ has no member named ‘result’

       printf("%sn",interp->result);

                           ^

Following TIP #330: Eliminate interp->result from the Public Headers, you may be able to workaround this by passing flag -DUSE_INTERP_RESULT on the make command line:

make CPPFLAGS="-DUSE_INTERP_RESULT"

the package appeared to build successfully, but I did not install or test it.

I used the solution by steeldriver, but I also had to add ABS_XLIB_H_PATH=/usr/include and ABS_X11LIB_PATH=/usr/include to solve the X11 no directory error (/usr/include should be replaced with the path where your X11 is located, if it is not in /usr/include).

    TCL_LIBDIR_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ 

    TK_LIBDIR_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ 

    ABS_XLIB_H_PATH=/usr/include ABS_X11LIB_PATH=/usr/include

    ./configure --with-tclsh=/usr/bin/tclsh8.5 

    --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.5 

    --with-tkconfig=/usr/lib/tk8.5

And then remember to run make with suggested flaggs:

    make CPPFLAGS="-DUSE_INTERP_RESULT"

I got some errors for the libpng not found, probably since the libpng is lib12png. This was not vital for making the build procced and I guess it can be fixed by replacing libpng with lib12png somewhere in the configure file. Further one likely also have to add the correct path using the proper parameter which should also be possible to find in the configure file and which is then done as with "some_path_indetifier_for_lib12png"=/path/to/lib12png/.

The error runs here:

checking for libtcl8.6.a... no

checking for libtcl8.6.so... no

This indicates that the package **libtcl8.6** is not installed in your system, you can install it in your system:

sudo apt-get install tcl8.6