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Bug 649844 - ./configure's --enable-tcl[=PATH] option ignores argument
./configure's --enable-tcl[=PATH] option ignores argument
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: xchat-gnome
Classification: Other
Component: general
HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: xchat-gnome maintainers
xchat-gnome maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-10 02:45 UTC by Nathan Phillip Brink (binki)
Modified: 2019-02-23 02:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
xchat-gnome-enable-tcl-fix.patch (1.28 KB, patch)
2011-05-10 02:45 UTC, Nathan Phillip Brink (binki) 		none Details | Review

Description Nathan Phillip Brink (binki) 2011-05-10 02:45:31 UTC 
Created attachment 187540 [details] [review]
xchat-gnome-enable-tcl-fix.patch

checking whether TCL support is requested... yes
checking for tclConfig.sh... not found
configure: error: tclConfig.sh not found. Try --enable-tcl=/path/to/

So, I retry with ./configure --enable-tcl=/usr/lib64 (and I do have tclConfig.sh in /usr/lib64) and get

checking whether TCL support is requested... /usr/lib64
checking for tclConfig.sh... not found
configure: error: tclConfig.sh not found. Try --enable-tcl=/path/to/

I look at configure.ac and then see that the user's argument is completely ignored by ./configure, excepting to check --enable-tcl=no. Attached is the patch which allows xchat-gnome to find my TCL installation with the help of --enable-tcl, making --enable-tcl=<PATH> work as advertised.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2019-02-23 02:49:37 UTC 
xchat-gnome is not under active development anymore.
Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/xchat-gnome/commits/master

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather reactivate the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.
You may want to switch to Hexchat (or another IRC client that suits you).