Rebuilding the development libraries eliminates the problematic TK_XINCLUDES setting and builds the packages (at least on Debian sid)
Please note that the maintainer of gnu-smalltalk in Debian has far more recent packages for gnu-smalltalk that have not been uploaded by a 'sponsor'. please see. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356043 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357808 -- blox-tk was not built because of bad tkConfig.sh https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/887 -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs