Re: [Plplot-general] funky installation problem

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

I was going to suggest using --prefix.  Your original report didn't
exactly show how configure was being run.

If you need to work not in the usual places, what you should do is
configure tcl, tk, and plplot, all against a chosen prefix, make and
make install each in turn.  So say you do:

mkdir ~/local
cd <tcldir>
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install
cd <tkdir>
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

Then to build plplot against these private versions, do:

cd <.../plplot/tmp>
../configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

Then these Tcl/Tk's will be found (and used by PLplot) before any in
the "usual places". 

However, I cannot comment usefully right now, on the itcl collision
business.  

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > That configure logic is complicated so this is just a suggestion of what
 > might work.  But if I understand it properly, it is designed so you can set
 > environment variables to force trying particular install locations.  For
 > example, I think you can setenv (with tcsh) or export (with the bash shell)
 > the following environment variables to specify any arbitrary install
 > location for TCL and TK: TCLINCDIR, TCLLIBDIR, TKINCDIR, and TKLIBDIR.
 > 
 > I don't have the expertise to help you with your specific itcl question, but
 > it does sound like we have a configuration inconsistency there. One
 > workaround for now until this gets fixed might be to install itcl then
 > configure with environment variables set for ITCLINCDIR and ITCLLIBDIR.
 > 
 > Alan
 > 
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 > Dr. Alan W. Irwin
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 > University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
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 > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 hv...@i-... wrote:
 > 
 > > Hello. I am trying to install PLPlot on a fairly vanilla linux node
 > > in a cluster but am having a problem I can't correctly interpret.
 > > 
 > > First, I have installed PLPlot successfully on other linux and unix
 > > (SunOS) boxes without fault. On those machines, I had tcl/tk 8.3.3
 > > but NO access to itcl.
 > > 
 > > On the problem machine, I am not allowed to install code 'in the normal
 > > places' so I have to run everything out of my home directory. Let's say
 > > that is directory foo, so foo/tcl8.3.3 and foo/tk8.3.3 and foo/plplot5.0.4
 > > all live there.
 > > 
 > > Tcl and Tk installed just fine. If I invoke any code 'there' I run
 > > 8.3 code, and NOT 8.0.5 code that is also hosted in default paths
 > > on said host.
 > > 
 > > When I ./configure in plplot directory, I hang up because the script
 > > thinks that it is running on a machine with 8.0.5 code. So I took
 > > a look in configure script under tcl and tk sections. There, I found
 > > incdirs_default and libdirs_default variables. So I added:
 > > /foo/tcl8.3.3/generic \
 > > /foo/tcltk/include    \
 > > 
 > > to top of list for incdirs_default and:
 > > foo/tcltk/lib to top of
 > > libdirs_default list. Now when configure runs, it plays nice and says it
 > > finds 8.3.3 of tcl and tk. I have run configure with both (default)
 > > and --disable-itcl, but in either case, the subsequent make runs fine
 > > until I see this:
 > > 
 > > gcc pltcl.o -L. -lplplot -ltclmatrix -o pltcl \
 > > 	-L/home/hcvidal/tcltk/lib -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
 > > -ldl -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/tmp no value given for
 > > parameter "body" to "_%@fake_itcl_class"
 > >     invoked from within "_%@fake_itcl_class $args"
 > >     ("eval" body line 1)
 > >     invoked from within "_%@eval _%@fake_itcl_class {$args}"
 > >     (procedure "itcl::class" line 1)
 > >     invoked from within "itcl::class Pltkwin {
 > >     inherit PLWin
 > >     constructor {args} {}
 > >     protected method plwin {} { return \$itk_interior.plwin }
 > > 
 > >     public metho..."
 > >     invoked from within "$parser eval $contents"
 > >     (procedure "auto_mkindex_parser::mkindex" line 25)
 > >     invoked from within "auto_mkindex_parser::mkindex $file"
 > >     (procedure "auto_mkindex" line 21)
 > >     invoked from within "auto_mkindex . *.tcl *.itcl *.itk *.ith *.itm"
 > >     (file "/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/scripts/mktclIndex" line 23)
 > > make[1]: *** [tclIndex] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
 > > `/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/tmp' make: *** [all] Error 2
 > > 
 > > this sure looks like itcl is being 'pulled in' but I still have not
 > > figured out why, Yes, I see this happening from mktclIndex,
 > > but just out of curiousity, why the hell is itcl being invoked if
 > > I spec --disable-itcl?
 > > 
 > > btw, is there an easier way to spec that myu plplot build should
 > > use a tcl and tk install 'over here' and not in default places,
 > > maybe via command line? That would be a lot easier.
 > > 
 > > Any helpful thoughts or solutions to be suggested? Thanks.
 > > 
 > > hv
 > > 
 > > 
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