[Starkit] strange tclkit problem

Brian Theado brian_theado at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 5 05:50:35 CET 2005


Are you using Tcl 8.4.9?  The changelog for 8.4.9 
(http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=284765)
mentions:

* Make [tcl_findLibrary] search $::auto_path as well

which I think is related to a previous Tix discussion
on this list:

http://www.equi4.com/pipermail/starkit/2003-July/001434.html

See also:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=695441&group_id=10894&atid=360894

--- "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden at cas.org> wrote:

> Okay, I have a user who wants to run a program that
> uses iwidgets.
> He needs to use a tclkit as the base interpreter. 
> Of course, the decision was
> made not to put itk and iwidgets into the tclkit. 
> So, I have them installed in
> another directory.
> 
> However, I am seeing this:
> $ tclkit
> % lappend auto_path /usr/tcl84/lib
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/tclkit/lib/tcl8.4
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/tclkit/lib
> /usr/tcl84/lib
> % package require Iwidgets
> Can't find a usable itk.tcl in the following
> directories:
>     /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/tclkit/lib/itk3.3
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/../lib/itk3.3
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/../library
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/../../library
> /volws/lwv28/ldatae/bin/sun4/../../itk/library
> This probably means that Itcl/Itk weren't installed
> properly.
> If you know where the Itk library directory was
> installed,
> you can set the environment variable ITK_LIBRARY to
> point
> to the library directory.
> 
> The weird thing is that it doesn't list the
> /usr/tcl84/lib directories such as:
> 
> ls /usr/tcl84/lib/[Ii][Tt][Kk]*
> /usr/tcl84/lib/itk3.2:
> Archetype.itk     itk.tap           libitkstub3.2g.a
> Toplevel.itk      itk.tcl           pkgIndex.tcl
> Widget.itk        libitk3.2g.so     tclIndex
> 
> /usr/tcl84/lib/itk3.3:
> Archetype.itk     Widget.itk        libitk3.3g.so   
>  pkgIndex.tcl
> Toplevel.itk      itk.tcl           libitkstub3.3g.a
>  tclIndex
> 
> So, what is missing?
> -- 
> Tcl - The glue of a new generation.  <URL:
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/ >
> Larry W. Virden <mailto:lvirden at cas.org> <URL:
> http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
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> in this posting should 
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