[techtalk] tcl/tk problem in Slackware 7.1

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:14:59AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
FeO thought:
> 
>i'm trying to install xcdroast 0.96 (cd burning software for x).  when i run
>./configure, i get the following output:
>
>------------snip-------------------
>
>Looking for TCL 8.0-Library: not found
>Looking for TK 8.0-Library: not found
>Looking for Tix 4.1-Library: /usr/lib/libtix4.1.8.0.so (shared)
>                              /usr/lib/libtix4.1.8.0.a (static)
>Looking for Tix 4.1-SAM-Library: /usr/lib/libtixsam4.1.8.0.so (shared)
>                                  /usr/lib/libtixsam4.1.8.0.a (static)
>Looking for TCL 8.0 lib-directory: not found
>Looking for TK 8.0 lib-directory: not found
>Looking for Tix 4.1 lib-directory: /usr/lib/tix4.1/
>Looking for TCL/TK/Tix include-files: /usr/include/
>
>No TCL 8.0 Library found. Please install TCL 8.0.
>
>---------------------snip--------------------
>
>this surprised me, since i thought i asked slackware to install the tcl/tk
>libs during the install.  so i did a "whereis tcl" and a "whereis tk" (the
>only way i know of to determine if software is installed.  are there
>better ways?) and got this output:
>
>tcl: /usr/bin/tcl /usr/lib/tcl8.3 /usr/include/tcl.h
>
>and
>
>tk: /usr/lib/tk8.3 /usr/include/tk.h /usr/man/mann/tk.n.gz
>/usr/man/catn/tk.n.gz /usr/X11/man/catn/tk.n.gz
>
>which i take to mean that i have the libs for tcl/tk 8.3 installed.  is it
>possible that xcdroast *requires* the older version of tcl/tk?  or could
>there be a good reason why the configure script can't see the version i
>have installed?
>
I suppose you _could_ try editing the configure script to look for tcl8.3
...
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