[Osw-users] Tcl/Tk 8.4.9

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

OK, I figured out my problem with building Tcl 8.4.9 and not being able to
see the proper tcl_platform(threaded) entry. It was, as I had hoped, user
error. Andy suggested that I ldd the file, which I did, and it showed that
the loader was looking for libtcl8.4.so from /usr/lib. Well, that was the
*existing* tcl shared lib that was NOT compiled with threading. When I
copied the new libtcl I had built into /usr/lib by hand, "puts
$tcl_platform(threaded)" returned 1. Hurrah! Problem understood.

 

Now I have done a "make install", but the default build I did has (a) placed
the executables in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin which should be OK
given my $PATH, but (b) tclsh was copied there as tclsh8.4. OSW doesn't care
about tclsh, correct? Just the shared lib, right? So I should be fine, .
yes?

 

Thanks for any help,

-jim