Re: [Dctc-general] Problems compiling dctc-0.85.9

[eric]

Hi,

>          I use a Slackware 8.1 version with libgcrypt installed. When I try
> to compile with:
>
> /autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/dctc
>
> processing .
> Running libtoolize...
> You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
> Running aclocal  ...
> Running autoheader...
> configure.in:5: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or
> m4_bpatsubst configure.in:348: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or
> m4_bregexp autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> Running autoconf ...
> Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr/local/dctc ...
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
> checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
> checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld option to reload object
> files... -r
> checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
> checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
> checking whether the linker (/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld) supports
> shared libraries... yes
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> creating libtool
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
> checking GCC version... 2.95.3
> checking for libgcrypt-config... yes
> checking gcrypt version... 1.1.91
> ./configure: line 8560: syntax error near unexpected token
> `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB,'
> ./configure: line 8560: `       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0
> gthread-2.0)'
>
>          What can I do?

You have to install pkg-config and probably glib2. However, even with this, I 
cannot confirm it will be enough because your gcc is very very very old. DCTC 
never has been compiled on gcc < 3.0.

Eric