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Trying my hand at installing a game... Tux Racer

Well, as you can imagine, there's a problem. It fails during the configure which normally is no big deal, just install what it says is missing. It says it's missing tcl and tcl is a blfs item. I install it but get the same configure error afterward. Not sure what to do at this point.

Code:

creating cache ./config.cache

checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

checking for working aclocal... found

checking for working autoconf... found

checking for working automake... found

checking for working autoheader... found

checking for working makeinfo... found

checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized



checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no

checking whether we are using GNU C... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for c++... c++

checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes

checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) is a cross-compiler... no

checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes

checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/time.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking for working const... yes

checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes

checking for getcwd... yes

checking for gettimeofday... yes

checking for strdup... yes

checking for finite... yes

checking for isnan... yes

checking for _finite... no

checking for _isnan... no

checking for ieeefp.h... no

checking for Win32 platform... no

checking for X... libraries , headers 

checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no

checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no

checking for gethostbyname... yes

checking for connect... yes

checking for remove... yes

checking for shmat... yes

checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes

checking for main in -ldl... yes

checking for main in -lm... yes

checking for tcl8.3 library... no

checking for tcl83 library... no

checking for tcl8.2 library... no

checking for tcl82 library... no

checking for tcl8.0 library... no

checking for tcl80 library... no

checking for tcl library... no

configure: error: Cannot find Tcl library



    *** BUILD_PROBLEM_DETECTED ***



make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.



    *** BUILD_PROBLEM_DETECTED ***



make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.



    *** BUILD_PROBLEM_DETECTED ***

Where did you install TCL to? you can tell the installer specifically where to look for TCL if need be.

Usually you can see these options with

Code:

./configure --options

Otherwise, you installed the correct version of TCL, yes?

Tuxracer may be looking for an older version.

Try this:

Code:

whereis libtcl8.6.so

When it find it, try this:

Code:

cd /path/to/libtcl8.6.so

ln -sv libtcl8.6.so libtcl8.so

It might detect libtcl8.so at least, but needed, you could add extra symlinks for:

libtcl8.0.so
libtcl8.1.so
libtcl8.2.so
libtcl8.3.so
libtcl8.4.so
libtcl8.5.so

WHAT VERSION OF TUX RACER IS THIS ? -- yes all capital --
there are two

the old and unsupported outdated one and the newer "Extreme Tux Racer"

the old one from 2001
http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxr...iles/tuxracer/

or the current one
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extr...iles/releases/

Extreme Tuxracer is the latest incarnation of TuxRacer. I suggest you grab it.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll try building the newest version of Extreme Tux Racer.

Extreme tuxracer works very well on lfs! ;)

I downloaded the latest Extreme Tux Racer and configure reports "SDL_image not found".

Code:

...

checking for sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config

checking for SDL - version >= 1.0.0... yes

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes

checking for SDLIMAGE... no

configure: error: SDL_image not found

I did a find and these are the only modules I found. This is after I installed SDL-1.2.15 from BLFS.

Quote:

find /usr -name *SDL*
/usr/lib/libSDLmain.a
/usr/lib/libSDLmain.la
/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libSDL.so
/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
/usr/lib/libSDL.la

Is SDL_image in some other package?

I have these packages and probably you need it.

then build and install " SDL_image"
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/

you will also likely need "SDL_mixer", "SDL_ttf"

did you read the build instructions ?
http://sourceforge.net/p/extremetuxracer/wiki/Build

Thanks for your help everyone. I just assumed everything I needed was under BLFS. I'm still just feeling my way around all this stuff.

I'm a bit farther now. Now it's complaining it can't find libGL. It's installed through MesaLIB via BLFS.

Code:

checking for SDLIMAGE... yes

checking for SDLMIXER... yes

checking for glBegin in -lGL... no

configure: error: libGL not found

It's there, I can see it and I even ran the gears demo.

Code:

find /usr/lib -name libGL.*

/usr/lib/libGL.la

/usr/lib/libGL.so

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

Why does this have to be difficult?

well this is " linux from scratch "
it is NOT supposed to be EASY

LFS is supposed to be rather HARD and rather complicated
and something one has to PUZZLE through

Solving that puzzle of building LFS is the purpose of the OS

for "easy" use something like
Opensuse
on suse to install ETR it is one line in the terminal
and it is installed

the same for
Ubuntu,Mint, Fedora, Debian ,...

Actually, LFS is easy. Just follow the set-by-step instructions. What's difficult is venturing out on your own as I've discovered in just trying to install a game. LFS doesn't actually teach you how to problem solve building packages. John, don't take it so personally if I vent a bit. Linux as I have come to learn, is all about pulling your hair out.

I have a feeling the problem has something to do with what Reaper posted. I'm might be looking for a different version of GL?

I'm giving up on this idea of installing a game. I've tried other games and if I do get past the configure part, there's some compiler error related to SDL or something. If the game actually builds, then it errors with a segment fault or some other error when trying to run it. A weeks worth of effort with nothing to show for it.