[Fink-devel] persistent problem with python-2.4 and blt/tkinter in 10.4 branch

[William S. <wg...@ch...>]

Tkinter and blt appear to be problematic on my machine running the  
10.4 (non-transitional) branch but not on my machine that has 10.4  
transitional.

In short, the following script fails on the former, but runs on the  
latter:

http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/temp/helloblt.sh


The error I get when it fails is this:

% ./helloblt.sh
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./helloblt.sh", line 78, in ?
     g = Pmw.Blt.Graph(master)                     # make a new graph  
area
   File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBlt.py",  
line 260, in __init__
     Tkinter.Widget.__init__(self, master, _graphCommand, cnf, kw)
   File "/sw/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1862, in __init__
     self.tk.call(
_tkinter.TclError: invalid command name "::blt::graph"

On the problematic machine, I have this:

% fink list python24 blt tcltk
Information about 5637 packages read in 4 seconds.
i   blt                      2.4z-14            Toolkit for tcl/tk
i   blt-dev                  2.4z-14            Toolkit for tcl/tk
      blt-man                  2.4z-14            Toolkit for tcl/tk
i   blt-shlibs               2.4z-14            Toolkit for tcl/tk
i   python24                 1:2.4.2-1005       Interpreted, object- 
oriented language
i   python24-shlibs          1:2.4.2-1005       Interpreted, object- 
oriented language
i   python24-socket          1:2.4.2-1005       Socket plugin for python
      python24-socket-ssl      2.4.2-1101         Socket plugin for  
python (SSL version)
      ruby18-tcltk                                [virtual package]
      ruby18-tcltk-x11         1.8.4-1            Tcl/Tk (using X11)  
extensions for Ruby
i   tcltk                    8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit
i   tcltk-dev                8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit
i   tcltk-shlibs             8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit

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On the machine that works, I have this:

Information about 2670 packages read in 15 seconds.
i   blt                      2.4z-12            Toolkit for tcl/tk
      blt-dev                  2.4z-12            Toolkit for tcl/tk
i   blt-shlibs               2.4z-12            Toolkit for tcl/tk
i   python24                 1:2.4.2-5          Interpreted, object- 
oriented language
i   python24-shlibs          1:2.4.2-5          Interpreted, object- 
oriented language
i   python24-socket          1:2.4.2-5          Socket plugin for python
      python24-socket-ssl      2.4-101            Socket plugin for  
python (SSL version)
i   tcltk                    8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit
i   tcltk-dev                8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit
i   tcltk-shlibs             8.4.6-2            Tool Command Language  
and the Tk toolkit


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