Re: [Plplot-devel] tkwin.c is now split and I have also reorganized the linking on Linux

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

Let's get down to specifics.  Currently, all the tcl stuff is installed here

ls /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl
FileSelector.tcl  cmap0a.pal   cmap1d.pal      plcolor.tcl*    pltools.tcl
PLWin.itk         cmap1a.pal   help_gui.tcl    plconfig.tcl    plwidget.tcl
PLXWin.itk        cmap1a1.pal  help_keys.tcl   pldefaults.tcl  tclIndex
Pltkwin.tcl       cmap1b.pal   help_tcltk.tcl  plplot.tcl
about.tcl         cmap1c.pal   plclient.tcl    plserver.tcl

and the drivers are installed here

ls /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/drivers/tkwind_drv.so
/usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/drivers/tkwind_drv.so

where /usr/local/plplot is my prefix.

Are you suggesting copying bindings/tk-x-plat/pkgIndex.tcl to
$prefix/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl and also putting a symbolic link from
that directory to the actual driver share object location (so it appears
the shared object is in the same directory as pkgIndex.tcl)?  I think you
also imply below that autopath would have to be changed to find
/usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl, but I may be misunderstanding you.

What would be the exact wish recipe associated with what you would like me
to do?

Please give me the full wish cookbook.  Currently, my linking changes of
moving everything to tkwind_drv.so seems to have confused the ability of
wish to find the *.tcl files in /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl, and I
am hoping that problem will get straightened out by the changes you suggest
(perhaps the autopath change?) that are associated with the using the
pkgIndex.tcl file.

Incidentally, the library linking changes cause no problems with

/usr/local/plplot/bin/plserver
source tkdemos.tcl
1
2
3
...

but now if I try source runAllDemos.tcl instead, it (unlike tkdemos.tcl)
cannot find the x??.tcl examples in the current directory. I have no idea
why subtleties of linking are having this bad effect on the runAllDemos.tcl
case, but I hope you are able to change runAllDemos.tcl to look in the
current directory for x??.tcl so it won't be so sensitive to linking
changes.

Alan

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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Vince Darley wrote:

> [...] 'load' will search
> anything on your path, but, by and large all normal uses of 'load' specify
> a full path, so it's not so much of an issue.  for easiest use with
> tcl/tk, we will need to install something into the tcl/tk hierarchy so it
> is automatically picked up by them.  We need to put a directory (called,
> say, plplot5.1.0, but that doesn't matter too much) anywhere on Tcl's
> auto_path, and put the pkgIndex.tcl (from bindings/tk-x-plat) into that
> directory, together with appropriate information on where to find the .so
> it will be loading (currently that pkgIndex.tcl assumes that everything it
> is looking for will also be in that directory, since that is how things
> are installed for a normal Tcl extension).
>
> -- Vince
>
> <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>
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