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Subject: Re: XBoard on OS X

Author: Eric Jensen

Date: 20:16:57 07/18/04

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On July 18, 2004 at 22:06:34, George Sobala wrote:


>>Why do you add this ??

I have to add the --x-inludes=/usr/X11R6/include because configure does not find
the library and header files for X11 if i do not.  When it gets to that part of
the configure it reads:

checking for X... no
xboard requires the X Window System header files and libraries!
They were not found on your system. See FAQ topic C.2.
configure failed
>>
>>What *exactly* happens if you just put ./configure ? see above... after i add the --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include and --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib, which is what it says to do in FAQ topic C.2., I get:

checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0
checking X11/xpm.h usability... no
checking X11/xpm.h presence... no
checking for X11/xpm.h... no
checking whether ptys or pipes should be used... pipes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating cmail
config.status: creating xboard.texinfo
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default commands

>>
>>Please also tell us:
>>
>>what hardware you have
PowerBook G4, 1 GB Ram, 1.3 GHz processor... etc. etc.
>>what version of OSX you have
10.3 Panther
>>what happens when you type gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

>>what happens when you type X -version
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)

>>what version of xboard you are trying to compile and where you got it from

XBoard 4.2.7 From Timm Mann's Chess Pages

>
>I strongly suspect you don't have the X11 SDK installed.

this is highly possible, because I do not recall installing SDK, however, I can
find that nowhere on the apple website from which i downloaded X11... it
purports to be on the Panther Development CD, however, I never got that CD... I
purchased my computer through my school, i don't know how or why the CD wasn't
included, but I don't have it.  The only thing i can think is that the software
should be on the AppleDeveloper'sConnection website, however I have not found it
there, or on opendarwin.org, and was even redirected to ... metapkg.org, and a
fink website on sourceforge...

In any case, if the SDK is my problem, could someone please help me actually
find SDK? And by the way, I have found this board to be an incredibly helpful
resource for my rather elementary problems, and I keep working harder to solve
them on my own, but continue to return here and am very impressed with the
response that I get here, so thank you for helping me.



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