[Ngspice-devel] Re: tclspice & magic

[Stefan J. <ste...@mu...>]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:39, cfk wrote:

> And yes, there are now two graphs, one of the input and one of the output of
> a magic inverter cell. By, the way, I can just do a
> 
> %;load /usr/lib/libspice
> 
> and get everything running without the 'package require spice'. I think the
> issues are very minor and perhaps could be just worked out so the
> occaisional user can get his magic/irsim/tclspice working without having to
> understand everything about paths, packages and such. I am hoping you might
> consider working to make it easier on the user.
> 
In this case it works, but in general if you do it from a wish command
line it will cause some breakages with the plot readline completion and
BLT (I think). 

I guess the "package require spice" step should be kept so the normal
tcl programmer can make use of tclspice, but a button or alias should be
made in magic to do this for you. 
I guess this is up to the magic guys.


> I also have a couple of suggestions along that line. Both magic and irsim
> have a make config step, tclspice has arguments to ./configure. Perhaps
> tclspice could have a make config step and avoid the ./configure arguments
> and have its make procedure more like irsim & magic (or conversly, magic
> could have its make config changed to ./configure arguements). Similarly,
> magic and irsim do a 'make tcl' followed by a 'make install-tcl' and
> tclspice does a 'make tcl' followed by a 'make tcl_install'. 

Ok, I will change tcl_install to install-tcl to unify that step. 

I will not do the make config -> ./configure change as the tclspice
Makefiles are autoconf / automake based thus require configure.
./configure --help is useful and works.

Will do a new tclspice release soon when I have it mostly fixed.

Thanks for the info,

	Stefan

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Stefan Jones <ste...@mu...>
Multigig Ltd