Re: [Osw-users] Tcl/Tk 8.4.9

[Amar <am...@pt...>]

OSW does make use of wish8.4 to launch the UI, but as long as your version
created a "wish8.4" with the version numbers, I think everything should be
OK.

  -Amar



> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks for any help,
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> -jim
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