[gobolinux-users] Rootless problem with Expect Recipe "Can't find Tcl configuration definition"

[Johannes Grosse]

Hi,

Background blurb
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I am trying to write a recipe for FreeNX and NX. 
NX is a compression system for X-tunneling, which also
dramatically reduces latency times to provide ssh 
X-tunneling over long distances and slow lines. 
FreeNX is a FOSS server providing an interface for 
NX clients.

Basically I am halfway there: NX compiles, which was a
mess; FreeNX consists entirely of shell scripts, 
so it is only a manifest recipe, though I am still 
struggling with the path configuration.
( In particular all of its configuration is done in one
  particular shell script. Should it be placed in the bin/
  or in the Settings/ directory? Currently it's in bin, 
  but I don't know how to handle updates gracefully in
  the future.)

Problem
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There are some dependencies however: FreeNX requires
Expect, which in turn needs Tcl (and optionally Tk).

I installed Tcl and Tk, but "Compile Expect" gives the
following messages:

-- [snip] --
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: warning: Can't find Tcl 
configuration definitions
Dbgconfigure: line 742: #: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./Dbg5625/tcldbgcf.h': No such file or directory
:
[snip]
:
configure: configuring in testsuite
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' 
  --prefix=/users/stud/jgrosse/Programs/Expect/5.44.1  
  '--prefix=/users/stud/jgrosse/Programs/Expect/5.44.1' 
  '--sysconfdir=/users/stud/jgrosse/Programs/Expect/Settings' 
  '--localstatedir=/users/stud/jgrosse/Programs/Expect/Variable' 
  '--exec-prefix=' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
loading cache /dev/null
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: warning: Can't find Tcl 
configuration definitions
./configure: line 614: #: No such file or directory
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for testsuite
PrepareProgram: configure failed.
Compile: Preparation step failed.
-- [snip] --


tcldbgcf.h does not exist in the source directory, but 
tcldbg.h and tcldbgcf.h.in do. So I guess the former
is generated from the latter ones.
I would also like to point out, that the --exec-prefix is
empty, though there is something about it in the recipe.
Manually setting it to the prefix value did not help.

System Info
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I have no idea what makes a decent bug report. 
So I give you my naive guess about which info you need:

I (am currently forced to) use

  GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release-(i386-pc-linux-gnu)

and my GoboLinux consists of these:

] ls -la /Programs/*/Current | sed 's/^.*:.. //'

Atool/Current -> 0.32.0
Compile/Current -> 1.8.2
FindUtils/Current -> 4.2.29
FreeNX/Current -> 0.6.0
Mtail/Current -> 1.1.1
NX-X11/Current -> 2.1.0-3
Netcat/Current -> 0.7.1
Rootless/Current -> 1.0
Scripts/Current -> 2.6.2
Tcl/Current -> 8.5a4
Tk/Current -> 8.5a4


Any hints are welcome, thanks for your time and attention,
Johannes