| Ticket UUID: | 4eb878ad82aa542372b48818145b39e91e7fa91b | ||
| Title: | configure for itcl on linux fails with error message | ||
| Type: | Bug | Created on: | 2025-06-26 14:19:16 |
| Submitter: | anonymous | Assigned to: | jan.nijtmans |
| Subsystem: | 53. Configuration and Build Tools | Severity: | Minor |
| Priority: | 5 Medium | Last modified: | 2025-06-27 09:53:57 |
| Status: | Closed | Closed by: | jan.nijtmans |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Closed on: | 2025-06-27 09:53:57 |
| Version: | 9.0.1 | ||
| Description: | ||||
$ cd /extra/src/tcl9.0.1/unix
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/tcltk-9.0.1 --exec-prefix=/usr/local/tcltk-9.0.1/linux.x86_64/debug --enable-64bit --disable-shared --enable-symbols
[...]
Configuring package 'itcl4.3.2'
[...]
/extra/src/tcl9.0.1/pkgs/itcl4.3.2/configure: line 9486: -I/extra/src/tcl9.0.1/pkgs/itcl4.3.2: No such file or directory
The offending line reads:
eval itcl_INCLUDE_SPEC="-I${itcl_SRC_DIR}/generic -I${itcl_SRC_DIR}"
...but the double quotes must be masked like this:
eval itcl_INCLUDE_SPEC=\"-I${itcl_SRC_DIR}/generic -I${itcl_SRC_DIR}\"
Otherwise, eval will consume them and the subsequent assignment will fail with the given error message.
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| User Comments: | ||||
jan.nijtmans added on 2025-06-27 09:53:57:
Thanks for the report and the proposed fix. Should be fixed now Next time, please report Itcl-related problems in the Itcl bug tracker In addition I don't see why -I${itcl_SRC_DIR} should be included: it doesn't contain any header file. I was able to reproduce the errormessage. But, since "configure" just continues, eventually the build succeeds. The only effect of this bug is that itcl_INCLUDE_SPEC in itclConfig.sh is empty. Since most people will install itcl in <prefix> anyway, no-one noticed. | ||||