Install troubles with NetBSD 1.5.3

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri Dec 13 09:44:34 UTC 2002


On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, J B Bell wrote:

> I'm trying to get Squeak installed on NetBSD 1.5.3 in order to run
> Swiki.  After learning of the npsqueak problem I disabled that feature
> and was able to compile and install it.  However, I did notice while
> compiling that -DHEADLESS kept showing up.  As I feared, this seems to
> make squeak always run in headless mode--not too useful for setting up
> swiki!
> 
> Here are the options I used for configure:
> 
> ../platforms/unix/config/configure --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include \
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --with-x --without-npsqueak
> 
> Looking over the configure script, there is an else clause that causes
> the -DHEADLESS option to be inserted; I assume it's some kind of "and
> if you just can't find any damn X stuff at all, go headless."
> However, I never see any complaint about not finding X libraries, etc.
> 
> What might I be doing wrong?  Or, is this a bug?

Looks like a bug. Why don't you just do this?

	../platforms/unix/config/configure --without-npsqueak

It seems the --with-x option is doing bad stuff. Just leave it out, as 
building with X is the default anyway.

And, by the way, what is the npsqueak problem?

-- Bert




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