[Osw-users] Tcl/Tk 8.4.9

[James R. <jam...@co...>]

All,

 

Hello, my name is Jim Ravan and I am new to OSW. My Tcl does not *seem* to
be threaded, so I am on the journey to try to compile a Tcl that *is*
threaded. I downloaded the latest 8.4.9 sources from the SourceForge Tcl
site and configured with "-enable-threads". The make looked fine, so I tried
"Make test". All the tests that ran were successful. Now the problem.

 

I'm running PlanetCCRMA under Fedora Core 3. The supplied tclsh in /usr/bin
says "no such array element" when I try:

 

$ tclsh

% puts $tcl_platform(threaded)

 

So after the successful "make test", which included tests for threading, by
the way, while still in the unix subdirectory of the downloaded 8.4.9 Tcl
source tree, and before I stuck things in /usr/local/bin with a "make
install", I made sure that threading was enabled in the newly compiled tclsh
by typing:

 

$ ./tclsh

% puts $tcl_platform(threaded)

 

Well, it said the same thing as the original tclsh said: "no such array
element"! So I'm confused. After I configured with "-enable-threads", I
expected the make to "just work". But it seems, and a few Google searches
seem to bear out, that tcl_platform should contain a "threaded" element that
contains 1. And that is not the case in my new tclsh for some reason.

 

Why does my compiled tclsh not have a tcl_platform "threaded" entry even
though I configured with "-enable-threads"? (And when I look at the
configure output, it seems to be checking some details about pthreads.) Can
anyone help, or point me to the tcl mailing list where I should be asking
this question?

 

Thanks,

-jim