From: Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...> - 2002-11-07 18:45:15
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Geoffrey Furnish writes: > Grrrr. I was able, with lots of recompiling the universe, to get as > far as stepping through plserver, to find that the source of the > trouble is that the call to Itcl_Init in tkMain.c, fails, which causes > plserver to exit straight away. > > I cannot see why this fails. But for whatever reason, Itcl 3.2.1, > appears to be incompatible with Tcl 8.4.1. Well, I don't understand what could've caused this change, but the bottom line is that you have to set ITCL_LIBRARY to $prefix/lib/itcl3.2, and similarly for ITK_LIBRARY, in order for plserver to run. Setting these environment variables is not necessary when using itcl3.2.1 over tcl/tk 8.3.x. Bizarre. With that, plserver works fine. But I face more impediments to using plplot cvs head in my day job. plplot-config --libs no longer reports something that works. I know people are real hip on splitting all the language bindings out of libplplot proper, but those language bindings are there because applications use them. So if we're going to go this route, then plplot-config needs to keep pace, and I guess, grow options so it can spit out all the binding-specific drivel that has to be done just right. -- Geoffrey Furnish fu...@ga... |