modules on cygwin

[Mark L. <la...@mi...>]

I'm having trouble getting modules to run properly on Cygwin. I get this error
if I try running 'modulecmd.exe sh'

init.c(425):ERROR:159: Cannot initialize TCL


I had this problem before on Solaris, and the work arounds were

(1) Set TCL_LIBRARY or TCLLIBPATH (I can't remember which) to point to
/usr/local/lib/tcl8.0 so that TCL can find init.tcl

(2) Recompile TCL so that the paths are correct in the library. (actually, it
was the sysadmin's fault for renaming a path incorrectly)


However, I can't see anything wrong with the Cygwin TCL installation (although
it is an old 8.0).  From [info library] in the tclsh, i get
C:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.0. If I set

TCL_LIBRARY=C:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.0
export TCL_LIBRARY

then it magically works. However, I would like this to work without the env
var. Any ideas?

-Mark



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