[Help-smalltalk] Compiling 2.1.2 - can't find Tcl

[Carey Evans]

I've been trying to compile GNU Smalltalk 2.1.2 under Debian GNU/Linux 
unstable, and I've had some trouble getting configure to find the Tcl 
and Tk libraries.  I passed --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 and 
--with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.4 so that configure finds tclConfig.sh and 
tkConfig.sh, but even then it doesn't work out the correct include and 
link flags.

Running configure within script, as sh -x ./configure, I seem to have 
found the problem: configure is caching the results of the first test 
for tcl.h (trial 1) for the three other trials, so only the first 
locations tested will work.  I tested this by editing configure and 
changing "for trial in 1 2 3 4" to "for trial in 4 1 2 3", and the Tcl 
and Tk libraries are now discovered correctly.

I haven't tried building Smalltalk yet; I'll report back if I have any 
problems there.

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