checking for existence of /usr/lib/tk8.5/tkConfig.sh... loading

checking if Tcl/Tk (if pre= sent) should be stubified... no

checking if gtk1 or gtk2 should be used... gtk2

checking if fatlines should be used... no

checking if ae2 support s= hould be used... no

chec= king if FsdbReader support should be used... no

checking for g++... g++

checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes

checking for C++ compiler de= fault output file name... a.out

chec= king 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 g++ accepts -g... yes

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

checking dependency = style of g++... gcc3

che= cking for gawk... (cached) mawk

checking for gcc... gcc

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

checking whether gcc accepts -g..= . yes

checking for gcc o= ption to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cach= ed) yes

checking for fle= x... flex

checking lex o= utput file root... lex.yy

checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking whether gcc and cc understand -c = and -o together... yes

c= hecking for gedit... /usr/bin/gedit

checking for fsdbdebug... notfound

checking for fsdb2vcd... notfound

checking for vpd2vcd... notfound

checking for wlf2vcd... notfound

checking for gperf... /usr/bin/gper= f

checking for dlopen in= -ldl... yes

checking fo= r sqrt in -lm... yes

che= cking for main in -lpthread... yes

checking for gzread in -lz... yes

checking for BZ2_bzread in -lbz2... no

checking if XZ should be enabled... yes=

checking for lzma_end in -llzma..= . no

configure: error: L= ZMA support for VZT is enabled, but xz could not be found.

Please install xz, see the http://tukaa= ni.org/xz website or use the --disable-xz flag.

gavin AT matango:~/Downloads/gtkwave-3.3.53$

but I can see the xz program:

gavin AT matango:~/Downloads/gtkwave-3.3.53$ which xz

/usr/bin/xz

So now I'm confused again. Is = there a different version of xz that's required? I'd rather not use the --d= isable-xz flag, so can you recommend a next step to try?

thanks again for your help,

Gavin

On Tuesday, December 31= , 2013 9:41 AM, "gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2= 013, al davis wrote:

> On Tuesday 3= 1 December 2013, gavin bowlby wrote:
>> I see the f= ollowing error message after doing a:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=3D/usr
>
> This is typical behavior when the configure script finds<= br clear=3D"none">> something missing. Usually what you need= to do is look in a
> file, I think it is something like "config.log". = Look at the
> stuff near the end of the file, and try= to make sense of it.
>
> There y= ou will see the actual output of what the script did
>= along the way. Usually this will hint at something missing.
> Now you need to find out what package provides that, if any,= and
> install it. It is common to go through se= veral iterations of
> this. Welcome to autoconf.=
>
> On ubuntu and debian, you ca= n use the "dpkg" and "apt-cache"
> tools to try to mat= ch up a file to a package containing it.

On Debian based systems:

apt= -cache search pattern <- when you know (partial) package name (e.= g. "tcl")
apt-file search pattern <- when you know a = file name (e.g. "/usr/lib/libtcl")
dpkg -S pattern = <- figure out which package installed= a file on your system

once you = know the package name:

apt-get install= package

Most projects are split in mu= ltiple packages. The plain foo contains the
binary only,= for when you want to run it; foo-dev contains the headers and
extras if you want to compile against a lib; there are sometimes foo= -doc
for the documentation.

Major versions usually have different packages that can be instal= led in
parallel; tcl8.4, tcl8.6; install both or install= the one the config
script is looking for.

TL;DR: apt-get install tcl8.4-dev most probably fixes the p= roblem about a
missing libtcl.

Regards,

Tibor

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