From: Vlad Cojocaru (vlad.cojocaru_at_mpi-muenster.mpg.de)
Date: Tue Apr 07 2015 - 05:40:33 CDT

Sorry,

Apparently, I forgot that for my previous compilation of 1.9.2b1 on Oct
23 I needed to change -ltcl8.5 with -ltcl8.6 in the Make-arch file ....
It works with this modification

Best
Vlad

On 04/07/2015 12:23 PM, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> Dear VMD users and developers,
>
> I am trying to compile VMD 1.9.2 (the official release) from source
> and I get the error below while compiling the plugins. Apparently some
> plugins have a strict requirement for tcl8.5 and fail to compile
> because I only have tcl 8.6 on my system. Interestingly, I have
> compiled previously the version 1.9.2b1 on October 23 2014 on exactly
> the same system with no problems and I did not need to modify the
> Makefiles of any plugins to specifically search for tcl8.6. So, the
> problem must come from a new plugin or a modification done between
> October 23 and today.
>
> Does anyone have any solution for this issue ?
>
> Best wishes
> Vlad
>
> My system:
> openSUSE 13.1
> GCC 4.8
> TCl 8.6
>
> Error:
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> cannot find -ltcl8.5
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [vtfplugin.so] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [molfilelibs] Error 1
> make: *** [LINUXAMD64] Error 2
>
>
>

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Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
Computational Structural Biology Laboratory
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
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