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

Hi,

I am trying to install Tk-804.027 under openSUSE 10.3 with

perl -MCPAN -e shell

as written in the INSTALL file.

I get as far as shown in the following list 

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  CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NI/NI-S/Tk-804.027.tar.gz

/usr/bin/perl is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-m
+ulti okay
PPM for perl5.008008
Test Compiling config/signedchar.c
Test Compile/Run config/unsigned.c
Test Compiling config/Ksprintf.c
Test Compiling -DSPRINTF_RETURN_CHAR config/Ksprintf.c
Test Compiling config/tod.c
Test Compiling -DTIMEOFDAY_TZ config/tod.c
Test Compiling -DTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ config/tod.c
Test Compiling -DTIMEOFDAY_DOTS config/tod.c
Problem gettimeofday()
Using -L/usr/lib to find /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
Cannot find X include files via /usr/include
Cannot find X include files anywhere at ./myConfig line 332.
Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 36.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 38.
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What is the reason for the error?
Thank you for any hint.

K. Jantzen

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Re: Installing Tk-804.027 under openSUSE 10.3
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 30, 2007 at 12:10 UTC

    The Makefile.PL cannot find the include files for X:

    Cannot find X include files via /usr/include

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    That means you need to install the include files for X. Most of the time, these live as xlib-dev or some other package of a comparable name - you will need to instruct yast (or RPM?) to install these before you can proceed.

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Re: Installing Tk-804.027 under openSUSE 10.3
by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 30, 2007 at 13:27 UTC
    Also, you should try Tk-804.028.
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      I tried Tk-...028 but got a compilation error 
      strdup.c:3: error: expected identifier or '(' before '__extension__';
strdup.c:5: error: expected identifier or '(' before '{' token
make[1]: *** [strdup.o] Error 1

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      Tk- ...027 seems to work.

      Thank you.

      K. Jantzen

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        Not good. Can you try to re-run Makefile.PL with verbosity turned on: perl Makefile.PL VERBOSE=1 and send me the complete log? Best to submit the log to the Tk queue in rt.
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