Re: FVWM: fvwm-2.4.6 Build Problem

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:47:47 +0000

On 14 Mar 2002 08:39:41 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
>
> After untaring the 2.4.6 distribution on an Alpha running
> DU/Tru64-v4.0D, I ran /configure/. It stopped with the following error:
>
> checking for X... conftestdir: No such file or directory
>
> Though I've successfully built and have been running fvwm-2.2 on my
> Alpha for a *long* time, the more recent versions all have given me the
> same error during /configure/.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!

There is the same X detection in 2.2.x and 2.4.x.

This code is generated by autoconf anyway, so we may only do a work around
if the problem is known.

The code is this:

  if mkdir conftestdir; then
    cd conftestdir

I guess (I don't have Tru64) that mkdir failed but still returned
successful 0 status. Then "cd" generates the error you see.
Do you have write permissions in the build directory?
Or mkdir on Tru64 does not return the error status when failed?

Please debug this problem, I don't think it is FVWM related.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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