[Xastir] OSX 10.15.7 Macports: configure: error: **** MOTIF LIBRARIES NOT FOUND ****

[Tom Russo]

Not nearly enough.  Probably need 10-20 more lines before this.  What you
want to see is *what* the error generated was, not the program that caused
it.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 07:22:44PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <f1mhv at free.fr> flavor, containing:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Is that the part (or complete log needed?):
> 
> 1 error generated.
> configure:8765: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "xastir"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "xastir"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.1.7"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "xastir 2.1.7"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "xastir at xastir.org"
> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> | #define PACKAGE "xastir"
> | #define VERSION "2.1.7"
> | #define PACKAGE "xastir"
> | #define VERSION "2.1.7"
> | #define XASTIR_TOCALL "APX217"
> | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
> | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
> | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
> | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
> | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
> | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
> | #define TNC_PORT "none"
> | #define GPS_PORT "none"
> | #define HAVE_PTHREAD 1
> | #define XASTIR_SYSTEM "Darwin"
> | #define HAVE_CONVERT 1
> | #define CONVERT_PATH "/opt/local/bin/gm convert"
> | #define HAVE_LPR 1
> | #define LPR_PATH "/usr/bin/lpr"
> | #define STIPPLE 1
> | #define HAVE_LIBXEXT 1
> | #define HAVE_LIBXT 1
> | #define HAVE_LIBXM 1
> | #define HAVE_SED 1
> | #define SED_PATH "/usr/bin/sed"
> | #define HAVE_MV 1
> | #define MV_PATH "/bin/mv"
> | #define HAVE_XFONTSEL 1
> | #define XFONTSEL_PATH "/opt/X11/bin/xfontsel"
> | #define HAVE_LIBCURL 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> | 
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> | XmGetDestination()
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:8826: error: **** MOTIF LIBRARIES NOT FOUND **** Install Motif development headers/libraries or use --with-motif-libraries to specify path to libXm.a
> 
> 
> 73 de Cyril - DF1CHB/AM - F1MHV/M
> 
> 
> 
> > Le 31 janv. 2021 ?? 19:06, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> a ??crit :
> > 
> > Look in config.log and see what the actual failure is.
> > 
> > Configure finds libraries not simply by looking for the file, but by actually
> > trying to link them into a small program.  If that fails, it says it can't
> > find them.  There are often reasons for the failure other than the file not
> > existing --- for example, the library can be broken in some way, or require
> > dependencies that don't exist.
> > 
> > Look in config.log and try to find the spot where it actually claims it can't
> > find libXm.a, and the error message from the linker should help to explain
> > why it doesn't work.  But the solution to whatever that problem may be might
> > not be obvious at first.
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 07:03:28PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <f1mhv at free.fr> flavor, containing:
> 

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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