XBoard (GtkBoard?) pre-alpha

[JoshPettus]

GAH! you're right! it was right there. Weird some quirk of macports required a separate x11 folder over there. A simple simlink did it. Thank-you!

[Sven]

GAH! you're right! it was right there. Weird some quirk of macports required a separate x11 folder over there. A simple simlink did it. Thank-you!

Nice!

@HGM: I suggest that you (resp. Arun) check why configure did not detect that problem. It should never have printed

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checking X11/Xaw/Dialog.h usability... yes
checking X11/Xaw/Dialog.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Xaw/Dialog.h... yes

but later on generate a makefile that does not have the -I /usr/X11/include (or /opt/X11/include) in the build rules, that looks inconsistent. The purpose of "configure" is to create a working makefile if everything is installed properly, and to complain if it isn't. Saying "Dialog.h is present" would imply that the file is where it will be expected by the compiler with the configured command line. There might be some tiny detail in the "configure.ac" (or even in the autoconf tool?!) that makes trouble.

Sven

[hgm]

Arun suggests the following:


In the check for presence we use (amongst others) X_CFLAGS as compiler argument, but it is not used later when we actually compile XBoard. So if the include directories are specified in that variable, ./configure would say they are present, but the compiler would not be told where they were.

Can you add the two lines

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echo " x_cflags $X_CFLAGS"
echo " x_lib $X_LIBS"

at the end of configure.ac, and run the autoconf process again to see what it prints for the value of these variables? On Arun's machine they are empty, meaning that nothing is missed by leaving them out in the compile command.

In case they are not empty, you should add @X_CFLAGS@ in the list of AM_CPPFLAGS in Makefile.am to correct the situation (i.e. make gcc use these flags too when compiling XBoard).

One more remark:

to get verbose output, there is no need to edit the Makefile to remove any @, but you could simply give the command

make V=1

[JoshPettus]

Sure thing, it actually wasn't empty. I got

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 x_cflags  -I/usr/X11/include
 x_lib -lXpm  -lSM -lICE  -L/usr/X11/lib -R/usr/X11/lib  -lXmu -lX11 -lXt 

And for the make part i got

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depbase=`echo xaw/xboard.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
	gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -DINFODIR='"/usr/local/share/info"'  -I/usr/X11/include -D_REENTRANT -I/opt/local/include/cairo -I/opt/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/pixman-1 -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include/libpng15 -I/opt/local/include/librsvg-2.0 -I/opt/local/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0     -DSYSCONFDIR='"/usr/local/etc"' -DLOCALEDIR='"/usr/local/share/locale"' -DSVGDIR='"/usr/local/share/games/xboard/themes/default"' -I xaw -DX11   -Wall -Wno-parentheses -MT xaw/xboard.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o xaw/xboard.o xaw/xboard.c &&\
	mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
xaw/xboard.c: In function ‘InitializeFonts’:
xaw/xboard.c:919: warning: unused variable ‘vTo’

for the xboard.c part. So looks to me like it worked!

[hgm]

OK, so we will fix it this way in he distribution then!