From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

Hi,

I decided to have a go at upgrading my system to Tcl9.0.4. As part of
this exercise, I downloaded Img-2.1.1.

Sadly it doesn't build out of the box.

After ./configure --prefix=/opt/tcl9.0.4 \
--with-tcl=/opt/tcl9.0.4/lib
make fails as below:

gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"tifftcl\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"tifftcl\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"4.7.1\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"tifftcl\ 4.7.1\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DBUILD_tifftcl=/\*\*/ -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1
-DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1
-DUSE_THREAD_ALLOC=1 -D_REENTRANT=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE=1 -DTCL_THREADS=1 -DUSE_TCL_STUBS=1 -DUSE_TCLOO_STUBS=1 -DUSE_TK_STUBS=1
-DMODULE_SCOPE=extern\ __attribute__\(\(__visibility__\(\"hidden\"\)\)\) -DHAVE_HIDDEN=1 -DHAVE_CAST_TO_UNION=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DTCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG=1 -DTCL_CFG_OPTIMIZED=1 -DUSE_TCL_STUBS=1 -I"." -I"./libtiff" -I"./../compat/libtiff/libtiff" -I"/opt/tcl9.0.4/include"
-pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -Wall -fPIC -DTIFFTCLAPI=MODULE_SCOPE -c `echo tifftcl.c` -o tifftcl.o
In file included from tifftclDecls.h:38,
from tifftcl.h:50,
from tifftcl.c:29:
../compat/libtiff/libtiff/tiffiop.h:31:10: fatal error: tif_config.h: No
such file or directory
31 | #include "tif_config.h"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Happily, I found the instructions in README.md and was able to exclude
TIFF from the build which completed successfully. As far as my (very
limited) testing has been able to determine, I can live without TIFF but
I'd rather not if I can avoid it, and this might be a show-stopper for
others.

tif_config.h seems to have been included in the distributions of
previous Img versions, I seem to have distributions for 1.4.16, 2.0b1,
2.0.0, 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 lying around.



Alan

Full disclosure - I'm running Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia), gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1-22.04.3) 11.4.0, building against Tcl 9.0.4.
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From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

I'm building Img 2.1.1 sucessfully on various Linux distributions (Debian, Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenMandriva) using Tcl/Tk 9.0.4.

tif_config.h is not included in the source code distribution, because it is created during the configure step.
You should find a line in the configure output:
config.status: creating libtiff/tif_config.h

My configure options are:
--enable-shared
--enable-threads
--disable-symbols
--with-tcl=
--with-tk=
--prefix=
--exec-prefix=

Paul

Am 03.07.2026 um 15:48 schrieb Alan Grunwald:

Hi,

I decided to have a go at upgrading my system to Tcl9.0.4. As part of this exercise, I downloaded Img-2.1.1.

Sadly it doesn't build out of the box.

    After ./configure --prefix=/opt/tcl9.0.4                       \
                 --with-tcl=/opt/tcl9.0.4/lib
make fails as below:

gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"tifftcl\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"tifftcl\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"4.7.1\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"tifftcl\ 4.7.1\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DBUILD_tifftcl=/\*\*/ -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DUSE_THREAD_ALLOC=1 -D_REENTRANT=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE=1 -DTCL_THREADS=1 -DUSE_TCL_STUBS=1 -DUSE_TCLOO_STUBS=1 -DUSE_TK_STUBS=1 -DMODULE_SCOPE=extern\ __attribute__\(\(__visibility__\(\"hidden\"\)\)\) -DHAVE_HIDDEN=1 -DHAVE_CAST_TO_UNION=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DTCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG=1 -DTCL_CFG_OPTIMIZED=1 -DUSE_TCL_STUBS=1  -I"." -I"./libtiff" -I"./../compat/libtiff/libtiff" -I"/opt/tcl9.0.4/include"   -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -Wall -fPIC -DTIFFTCLAPI=MODULE_SCOPE -c `echo tifftcl.c` -o tifftcl.o
In file included from tifftclDecls.h:38,
                 from tifftcl.h:50,
                 from tifftcl.c:29: ../compat/libtiff/libtiff/tiffiop.h:31:10: fatal error: tif_config.h: No such file or directory
   31 | #include "tif_config.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Happily, I found the instructions in README.md and was able to exclude TIFF from the build which completed successfully. As far as my (very limited) testing has been able to determine, I can live without TIFF but I'd rather not if I can avoid it, and this might be a show-stopper for others.

tif_config.h seems to have been included in the distributions of previous Img versions, I seem to have distributions for 1.4.16, 2.0b1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 lying around.

Alan

Full disclosure - I'm running Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia), gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1-22.04.3) 11.4.0, building against Tcl 9.0.4.

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From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

On 03/07/2026 19:26, Paul Obermeier wrote:

I'm building Img 2.1.1 sucessfully on various Linux distributions
(Debian, Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenMandriva) using Tcl/Tk 9.0.4.

tif_config.h is not included in the source code distribution, because it
is created during the configure step.
You should find a line in the configure output:
config.status: creating libtiff/tif_config.h

My configure options are:
--enable-shared
--enable-threads
--disable-symbols
--with-tcl=
--with-tk=
--prefix=
--exec-prefix=

Paul

Am 03.07.2026 um 15:48 schrieb Alan Grunwald:

Hi,

I decided to have a go at upgrading my system to Tcl9.0.4. As part of
this exercise, I downloaded Img-2.1.1.

Sadly it doesn't build out of the box.

     After ./configure --prefix=/opt/tcl9.0.4                       \
                  --with-tcl=/opt/tcl9.0.4/lib

<snip details of error>

Thanks Paul,

It won't surprise you to here that the line about creating tif_config.h
is absent from my output from configure.

I had a go at re-running configure including more of the options that
you specified. Even after

$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/tcl9.0.4 \
--with-tcl=/opt/tcl9.0.4/lib \
--with-tk=/opt/tcl9.0.4/lib \
--enable-shared \
--enable-threads \
--disable-symbols \
--exec-prefix=/opt/tcl9.0.4

I'm not seeing a line saying that the file is being generated, and
indeed there is no tif_config.h.

I've checked and the two lines in configure.ac and the one line in pkg_index.tcl.in are present. Further, configure is dated Feb 13, so I
am pretty confident that I should be generating tiff support.

I took a look at the configure script and couldn't make a great deal of
sense of it. As far as I can make out, configure is supposed to recurse through the configure scripts in various subdirectories, including in
tiff; apparently it isn't doing so in my case.

Any ideas?
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