Re: [MACTCL] Re: relocating Tcl(/Tk), prebind, etc.

[james t. <ti...@ma...>]

hey guys,

On Jun 16, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Daniel A. Steffen wrote:
>
> the relevant script used to be in WIsh.pbroj as mentioned by  
> Andreas but I have in fact now also moved this into the tk/macosx/ 
> Makefile (as this now builds the embedded Wish.app), c.f. below

...snip...

> yes, in fact the installer packages in TclTkAqua that I build as  
> separate downloadable tarballs _are_ relocatable (but you still  
> need an admin password), the main reason I disabled this in the  
> disk image build is because there used to be severe bugs in Apple's  
> Installer with .mpkg containing relocatable .pkg (I believe some of  
> these are fixed in recent 10.3.x and 10.4)

...if I understand this correctly, the script modifies a built copy  
of the tcl/tk frameworks to be embeddable (ie. install_name of  
@executable_path...), but it doesn't do the same for Wish.app (or  
rather, just make the "standalone" wish point to embedded frameworks)?

...I ask because I think this is what I need to do...my binary will  
need to occupy the Contents/MacOS folder for a variety of reason, so  
I'm trying to make an embedded tcl/tk with wish.app embedded in the  
tk.framework (much like it is in the normal system-wide installs)...

...is this possible?  I'd like to think so, because then I can  
distribute experimental versions using tcl/tk 8.5, in addition to a  
select few tcl/tk extensions...


jamie