Re: windowmaker

[Chris Martino <chrismar console org>]

Maybe you should send this to the Window Maker mailing list?

Chris 

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, j g b wrote:

> i obtained and unpacked the WindowMaker package. following the
> installation guide closely,
> i've been unable to build this package.
> 
> after running ./configure whose output was:
> 
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for POSIXized ISC... no
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
> checking whether gcc needs -traditional... (cached) no
> checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
> checking for vprintf... (cached) yes
> checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
> checking for alloca... (cached) yes
> checking for gethostname... (cached) yes
> checking for gettimeofday... (cached) yes
> checking for select... (cached) yes
> checking for poll... (cached) yes
> checking for strerror... (cached) yes
> checking for strncasecmp... (cached) yes
> checking for setpgid... (cached) yes
> checking for cpp... (cached) /lib/cpp
> checking for gettext... (cached) yes
> checking for xgettext... (cached) xgettext
> checking for X... (cached) no
> checking for _Xsetlocale in -lX11... (cached) no
> checking for XShapeSelectInput in -lXext... (cached) no
> checking for XShmAttach in -lXext... (cached) no
> checking for XpmCreatePixmapFromData in -lXpm... (cached) no
> checking for gzread in -lz... (cached) yes
> checking for png_get_valid in -lpng... (cached) yes
> checking for png.h... (cached) yes
> checking for jpeg_destroy_compress in -ljpeg... (cached) yes
> checking for DGifOpenFileName in -lungif... (cached) no
> checking for DGifOpenFileName in -lgif... (cached) yes
> checking for gif_lib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for TIFFGetVersion in -ltiff... (cached) no
> checking for TIFFGetVersion in -ltiff... (cached) no
> checking for TIFFGetVersion in -ltiff34... (cached) no
> checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... (cached) yes
> checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
> checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/ioctl.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
> checking for libintl.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/select.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys_siglist declaration in signal.h or unistd.h... (cached)
> yes
> checking for working const... (cached) yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for size_t... (cached) yes
> checking for pid_t... (cached) yes
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached)
> yes
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> creating po/Makefile
> creating util/Makefile
> creating test/Makefile
> creating wmlib/Makefile
> creating WINGs/Makefile
> creating WINGs/Resources/Makefile
> creating src/Makefile
> creating src/wconfig.h
> creating wrlib/Makefile
> creating doc/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Defaults/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Styles/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Themes/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Backgrounds/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Pixmaps/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/Icons/Makefile
> creating WindowMaker/IconSets/Makefile
> creating WPrefs.app/Makefile
> creating WPrefs.app/tiff/Makefile
> creating WPrefs.app/xpm/Makefile
> creating WPrefs.app/po/Makefile
> creating src/config.h
> src/config.h is unchanged
> configuring in libPropList
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
> checking for flex... (cached) flex
> checking for flex... (cached) flex
> checking for yywrap in -lfl... (cached) yes
> checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy
> checking whether yytext is a pointer... (cached) yes
> checking for bison... (cached) bison -y
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/file.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for crypt.h... (cached) yes
> checking for working const... (cached) yes
> checking for pid_t... (cached) yes
> checking for size_t... (cached) yes
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached)
> yes
> checking for 8-bit clean memcmp... (cached) yes
> checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
> checking for socket in -lsocket... (cached) no
> checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... (cached) yes
> checking for crypt in -lcrypt... (cached) yes
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> 
> Window Maker was configured as follows:
> 
> Installation path prefix: /usr/local
> Installation path prefix for binaries: /usr/local
> Installation path for WPrefs.app: /usr/local/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app
> Graphic format libraries:  PNG JPEG GIF PPM (built-in)
> Sound support: yes
> Translated message files to install: none
> 
> it looked good to me up to here but make crashed:
> .
> .
> .
> Making all in libPropList
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/tmp/upgrades/WindowMaker-0.20.2/libPropList'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/upgrades/WindowMaker-0.20.2/libPropList'
> Making all in wrlib
> make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/upgrades/WindowMaker-0.20.2/wrlib'
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-implicit-int -Wcast-align  -o test  test.o -L.
> -lwraster   -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lgif  -lX11 -lm
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/upgrades/WindowMaker-0.20.2/wrlib'
> ld: Cannot open -lX11 : No Such file or directory
> make[1] *** [test] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> the XFree86 libraries are installed (v. 3.3.2.3-18) as well as the gcc
> suite. i looked at
> the Makefile in the /wrlib dir and it  seems to be looking for the X11
> library. the directory
> where these files are located is /usr/X11R6/lib/ so i decided to fiddle
> with the Makefile
> by specifying this path and also variations of it. unfortunately, i've
> been unsuccessful. any ideas?
> 
> jack
> 
> 
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