blackfoot has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

It seems like I have followed all the instructions to get Tk working on my mac powerbook and it still fails. I have all the mac patches, the development kit installed, recompiled perl 5.8.4, have Xdarwin installed and I added the X libs to my path, but Tk fails to compile on versions 24 and 27. HELP! The output is abreviated.

Here is the output for 24... 

[blackfoot /usr/local/src/Tk800.024] sudo perl Makefile.PL
]perl is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/darwin okay
PPM for perl5.008004
...
Test Compiling -DTIMEOFDAY_TZ config/tod.c
TZ gettimeofday()
Using -L/usr/X11R6/lib to find /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib
Using -I/usr/X11R6/include to find /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
Generating Dependencies for darwin, win_arch=x
...
Writing Makefile for Tk

[blackfoot /usr/local/src/Tk800.024] sudo make
cd pTk && make DEFINE=""
...
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" ../blib/script/wi
+dget
Unrecognized switch: --center  (-h will show valid options).
make[1]: *** [manifypods] Error 255
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2

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Here is the output for 27... 
[/usr/local/src/Tk-804.027] sudo perl Makefile.PL    
perl is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/darwin okay
...                                                       
Using -L/usr/X11R6/lib to find /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib      
Using -I/usr/X11R6/include to find /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
XFT not requested
....                                       
No HASH(0x3fa5ac) at ./Makefile.PL line 132
...                   
checking for gcc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -n
+o-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include   -pipe -fno-
+common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/loca
+l/include  -flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -n
+o-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include   -pipe -fno-
+common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/loca
+l/include  -flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib) is a cross-compiler... n
+o
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes     
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
....                       
Writing Makefile for Tk::IO
                                     
[/usr/local/src/Tk-804.027] sudo make
cd pTk && make DEFINE=""
....                                                                  
+    
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" ../blib/script/wi
+dget
Unrecognized switch: --center  (-h will show valid options).
make[1]: *** [manifypods] Error 255
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2

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edit (broquaint): added <code> tags and a <readmore>

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Re: Mac OS X 10.2 and Tk
by eserte (Deacon) on May 04, 2004 at 16:12 UTC
    Unrecognized switch: --center (-h will show valid options).

    I am pretty sure that this error is only apparent in Tk 800.024 and earlier. A workaround to this problem is to use "make -k" instead of "make" to ignore the podify errors.

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      Thank you for the suggestion, eserte. I tried make clean and then reran make -k, but I still get the center error. I would prefer to go with the newer option if that is possible, but either one would be good at this point.
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        Yes, you get the error, but the build should continue and give you a working Tk, just without the documentation.
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        When I try to install Tk off CPAN, I get the following different error.

        make[2]: *** [../../blib/arch/auto/Tk/X/X.bundle] Error 1
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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Re: Mac OS X 10.2 and Tk
by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 04, 2004 at 19:23 UTC
    It seems like I have followed all the instructions to get Tk working on my mac powerbook and it still fails.

    You might be interested in the Tkl/Tk Aqua, which apparently now supports Perl (although I've not had a chance to try it out myself yet). Includes a nice binary installation to save you the effort of compilation :-)

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      I tried the Tkl/Tk Aqua and couldn't figure out how to add support. I tried the man -k again. I went back through the code and found an error crop up several times that I think is the root of my problem.

      ld: undefined symbols:

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      I assume this means my perl install or path is setup incorrectly. I am going to investigate this possibility further.
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        I erased the hard drive and installed 10.3, which comes with perl 5.8 installed. I installed xcode, X11, set my PATH, etc and it still failed. I went back and manually installed the X11SDK from the xcode installs and rebooted. When I rebooted Tk installed no problem. Hope this helps the next poor guy to try this. ;)
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