Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] [bug #34565] ./configure failed for microcode

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:16:19 +0000
> 
> [...]  Can someone else on the list who uses Debian or Ubuntu pipe
> up with the list of packages that you may want before building
> Scheme?  We should write it down somewhere more permanent, if it
> hasn't already been written down.

I found MOST of the list in the Debian source package, but still
missed autoconf, texinfo, texi2html and texlive.

>From the bugtracking whatsit...

> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #34565 (project mit-scheme):
> 
> Yeah, sudo apt-get install m4 solved it. Silly me. What is the
> significance of the other stuff?

The first line

    sudo apt-get install m4 autoconf autotools-dev libltdl-dev

lists the tools used to create the configure script, except the last,
which is for portabiklish access to your system's dynamic loader.

The second line

     sudo apt-get install texinfo texi2html texlive

lists the programs needed to build the documentation.

The third line

    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libmhash-dev libmcrypt-dev  \
                         libgdbm-dev libpq-dev libncurses5-dev  \
                         libx11-dev libxt-dev libdb-dev

lists the (optional) shared libraries needed to build all of La
Machine's "modules".  BTW, leave ALL of these out and Edwin cannot
run.  (Surprised me once...)  It needs at least libncurses5-dev (for
its libtermcap.so?), or libx11-dev and libxt-dev?