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From: al davis <ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] problems building gtkwave-3.3.53 on Ubuntu 13.10
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:11:20 -0500
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On Tuesday 31 December 2013, gavin bowlby wrote:
> I see the following error message after doing a:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr

This is typical behavior when the configure script finds 
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 you 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 several iterations of 
this.  Welcome to autoconf.

On ubuntu and debian, you can use the "dpkg" and "apt-cache" 
tools to try to match up a file to a package containing it.

Sometimes, rarely, you need to get some other package and 
install it from source too.

Regarding Stefan's comment that you wouldn't have this problem 
on Gentoo .....   maybe ...     Gentoo builds everything from 
source, so you are less likely to discover later that a 
particular library or tool is missing.  That makes Gentoo not 
suitable for testing build scripts.