Re: Not again! Trouble compiling on Linux...

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 22:33:30 +0200

Hi!

John Banghart <john@success.net> said:

John> I saw in the mailing-list archives that other people have had
John> trouble compiling this on Linux, but I didn't see any messages
John> related to my problem.

John> I retrieved the binary distributions for tcl7.4 and tk4.0 from
John> sunsite and installed them.

This one is in elf format as far as I know.

John> I ran the configure script for tkined-1.3.3 and it seemed to
John> find everything just fine. I got through the compile ok, but
John> when it came time to link the object files together, WHAM!, a
John> couple hundred errors. Here is a snapshot:

You are using an a.out compiler because the symbol names start with an
underscore. So you should either use an elf compiler or remove the
Tcl/Tk distributionyou got from sunsite and compile Tcl/Tk yourself.

Juergen