Re: [Plplot-general] funky installation problem

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

That configure logic is complicated so this is just a suggestion of what
might work.  But if I understand it properly, it is designed so you can set
environment variables to force trying particular install locations.  For
example, I think you can setenv (with tcsh) or export (with the bash shell)
the following environment variables to specify any arbitrary install
location for TCL and TK: TCLINCDIR, TCLLIBDIR, TKINCDIR, and TKLIBDIR.

I don't have the expertise to help you with your specific itcl question, but
it does sound like we have a configuration inconsistency there. One
workaround for now until this gets fixed might be to install itcl then
configure with environment variables set for ITCLINCDIR and ITCLLIBDIR.

Alan

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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 hv...@i-... wrote:

> Hello. I am trying to install PLPlot on a fairly vanilla linux node
> in a cluster but am having a problem I can't correctly interpret.
> 
> First, I have installed PLPlot successfully on other linux and unix
> (SunOS) boxes without fault. On those machines, I had tcl/tk 8.3.3
> but NO access to itcl.
> 
> On the problem machine, I am not allowed to install code 'in the normal
> places' so I have to run everything out of my home directory. Let's say
> that is directory foo, so foo/tcl8.3.3 and foo/tk8.3.3 and foo/plplot5.0.4
> all live there.
> 
> Tcl and Tk installed just fine. If I invoke any code 'there' I run
> 8.3 code, and NOT 8.0.5 code that is also hosted in default paths
> on said host.
> 
> When I ./configure in plplot directory, I hang up because the script
> thinks that it is running on a machine with 8.0.5 code. So I took
> a look in configure script under tcl and tk sections. There, I found
> incdirs_default and libdirs_default variables. So I added:
> /foo/tcl8.3.3/generic \
> /foo/tcltk/include    \
> 
> to top of list for incdirs_default and:
> foo/tcltk/lib to top of
> libdirs_default list. Now when configure runs, it plays nice and says it
> finds 8.3.3 of tcl and tk. I have run configure with both (default)
> and --disable-itcl, but in either case, the subsequent make runs fine
> until I see this:
> 
> gcc pltcl.o -L. -lplplot -ltclmatrix -o pltcl \
> 	-L/home/hcvidal/tcltk/lib -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
> -ldl -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/tmp no value given for
> parameter "body" to "_%@fake_itcl_class"
>     invoked from within "_%@fake_itcl_class $args"
>     ("eval" body line 1)
>     invoked from within "_%@eval _%@fake_itcl_class {$args}"
>     (procedure "itcl::class" line 1)
>     invoked from within "itcl::class Pltkwin {
>     inherit PLWin
>     constructor {args} {}
>     protected method plwin {} { return \$itk_interior.plwin }
> 
>     public metho..."
>     invoked from within "$parser eval $contents"
>     (procedure "auto_mkindex_parser::mkindex" line 25)
>     invoked from within "auto_mkindex_parser::mkindex $file"
>     (procedure "auto_mkindex" line 21)
>     invoked from within "auto_mkindex . *.tcl *.itcl *.itk *.ith *.itm"
>     (file "/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/scripts/mktclIndex" line 23)
> make[1]: *** [tclIndex] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hcvidal/plplot-5.0.4/tmp' make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> this sure looks like itcl is being 'pulled in' but I still have not
> figured out why, Yes, I see this happening from mktclIndex,
> but just out of curiousity, why the hell is itcl being invoked if
> I spec --disable-itcl?
> 
> btw, is there an easier way to spec that myu plplot build should
> use a tcl and tk install 'over here' and not in default places,
> maybe via command line? That would be a lot easier.
> 
> Any helpful thoughts or solutions to be suggested? Thanks.
> 
> hv
> 
> 
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