[Help-smalltalk] Re: Smalltalk mailing list & compilation

[Paolo Bonzini]

> I had no problem doing both after I updated my (aging) system. The 
> manuals are more up to date and I have started to play around with the 
> browser. It's very interesting.
Cool.
> > The browser is cross platform, it works equally for Tk and Gtk (but 
> > the latter is experimental).  But you probably don't have the Tcl/Tk 
> > development packages installed.  Look for tclConfig.sh in your disk, 
> > it is probably not there.
> I loaded the development files for Tcl/Tk but I had to load also glib 
> 2.0, I had glib 1.2 and configure complained about it but you have to 
> look carefully while it runs to notice that. Maybe I'd suggest you 
> repeat the problems at the end for the users who don't stare at 
> configure running?
glib is only necessary for Gtk, not Tk.
> Maybe if you group the problems configure encounters at the end it 
> would make things easier, or maybe something like "configure found 
> problems. Look at config.log" would suffice.
Thanks for the hint.  I'll add something like: "the following modules 
will be built/will not be built".

Paolo