I have been trying to ./configure tuxracer...
everytime i try i get this:

root@prodigius:/home/hseritt/tuxracer-0.61 > ./configure
loading 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... missing
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
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... no
checking for main in -ldl... yes
checking for main in -lm... yes
checking for tcl8.3 library... yes
checking for tcl.h... no
checking for tcl8.3.h... no
checking for tcl83.h... no
checking for tcl8.2.h... no
checking for tcl82.h... no
checking for tcl8.0.h... no
checking for tcl80.h... no
checking for Tcl headers in /usr/include/tcl8.3...
checking for tcl.h... no
checking for tcl8.3.h... no
checking for tcl83.h... no
checking for tcl8.2.h... no
checking for tcl82.h... no
checking for tcl8.0.h... no
checking for tcl80.h... no
checking for Tcl headers in /usr/include/tcl8.2...
checking for tcl.h... no
checking for tcl8.3.h... no
checking for tcl83.h... no
checking for tcl8.2.h... no
checking for tcl82.h... no
checking for tcl8.0.h... no
checking for tcl80.h... no
checking for Tcl headers in /usr/include/tcl8.0...
checking for tcl.h... no
checking for tcl8.3.h... no
checking for tcl83.h... no
checking for tcl8.2.h... no
checking for tcl82.h... no
checking for tcl8.0.h... no
checking for tcl80.h... no
checking for Tcl headers in /usr/include/tcl...
checking for tcl.h... no
checking for tcl8.3.h... no
checking for tcl83.h... no
checking for tcl8.2.h... no
checking for tcl82.h... no
checking for tcl8.0.h... no
checking for tcl80.h... no
configure: error: Can't find Tcl header file

i had even tried setting the path with ./configure options and still no dice. i looked in those particular directories and do not see anything that could remotely be a tcl.h (or the like).

please help me as i must get this game up and running soon!

the configure says something is not there...

i finally got the tcl header file in its proper place. here are the results when i configure now...

*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to sdl-config.
*** SDL not found. Configuring without audio or joystick support.
checking for GL library... yes
checking for glXGetProcAddressARB... yes
checking for GLU library... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking for GL/glx.h... no
configure: error: Cannot find GL/glx.h

now... when i do a> ls /usr/include/GL
voila:

gl.h glu_mangle.h glx_mangle.h xmesa_x.h
gl_mangle.h glut.h osmesa.h xmesa_xf86.h
glu.h glx.h xmesa.h

tell me i am not losing my freaking mind! glx.h is there! could anyone tell me what the hell is going on?

phil... i've run into these probs before... and they're a bitch to fix. the only way i've ever found to reliably fix them is to edit the configure script by hand, and it sucks. i read occasionally that a GL_CONFIG variable or something like that needs to be set, but i've never had any success doing that.

another, somewhat easier way to fix it is to re-install open gl, preferably from an rpm, not from an install cd. i had a problem where gtk wasn't being found, and the only way to get autoconf to find it was to reinstall it from the source. the way that worked is that it installed a small script called gtk-config in my /usr/bin directory that gave the gtk specs. gl would probably do something similar.

technically, the configure script SHOULD find libraries without the ???-config script, but it doesn't always work.