Re: make xconfig fails

Juergen Sawinski (juergen.sawinski@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de)
07 Dec 2001 10:22:06 +0100


I remember this happening when DISPLAY variable is not set or X11 server
doesn't allow connections.
(run 'xhost +localhost' as the user of the display, and "export
DISPLAY="localhost:0.0"' as root)

George

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:59, Ben Carrell wrote:
> Is anyone else experiencing errors like the below when trying to run
> 'make xconfig'. I have tcl/tk install fine, I'm not sure what else to
> check...please help :)
>
> root@london:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.16/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
> cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
> chmod 755 kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.16/scripts'
> wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
> Application initialization failed: unknown color name "Black"
> Error in startup script: can't invoke "button" command: application has
> been destroyed
> while executing
> "button .ref"
> (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51)
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 1
>
>
>
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