Re: Linux configuration to support dejagnu?

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>]

On Thu, 6 August 1998, 15:35:23, carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl wrote:

 > | I'm sure this is an elementary question covered somewhere in the FAQ's, but I
 > | can't find it.  I'm running i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1, from RH5.0 CD, but
 > | configure complains about xmkf not finding includes or libraries, no matter
 > | that I've installed all seemingly relevant RPM's.  Where can I find the
 > | recipe?  My NT box has taken a big step toward the grave with the installation
 > | of Service Pack 3, it seems no longer able to act like a computer.
 > 
 > Basicly, xmkmf (which generates Makefiles for the X windowing system from
 > templates) uses information that get stored while compiling XFree86.
 > So, I suppose you might not have installed XFree, or not enough.
 > On the other hand: You do not need the 'X' utilities that come with
 > dejagnu to run 'make check' for egcs.  I did not install the rpm's
 > for Tcl and friends (I hate that stuff) and that was enough for me
 > to cause dejagnu configure to decide it wouldn't compile the X utitilies.
 > 
 > Hope this helps a bit, if not then I could dig deeper, if you tell me
 > what you are missing for instance, then I can see what package that
 > belongs too.

I'd  assume he's having  the old /lib/cpp  problem again? Try to start
"/lib/cpp -dM"   and press  Ctrl-D to  see  if linux  is   amongst the
predefined macros;  if it isn't,   xmkmf/imake won't find any  include
files.

manfred