[Plplot-devel] installed plserver problems are now fixed

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

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Vince Darley wrote:

> Ok, I think I might know the problem: plserver's main starts messing with
> Tcl before calling 'Tcl_FindExecutable'.  This is bad (or at least
> potentially bad).
>
> pltclMain has:
>
>     Tcl_FindExecutable(argv[0]);
>     interp = Tcl_CreateInterp();
>
> plserver's 'main' has:
>
>     interp = Tcl_CreateInterp();
>
> so try adding the appropriate call...

Yes, that fixes it!  The installed plserver now works fine, and I have
committed the fixed tkMain.c to CVS.

Thanks very much for getting this straightened out!

BTW, this fix does not solve the remaining similar problem with installed
-dev tk, but I notice tk.c has the same problem that occurred for tkMain.c;
tk.c calls Tcl_CreateInterp without a prior call to Tcl_FindExecutable.  At
that point in the code argv is not available so I have to think a bit about
the appropriate way to put in the required Tcl_FindExecutable call, but I am
sure when I do so the -dev tk problem will be fixed.

Alan