Re: [Plplot-devel] prescription for loading tkwin driver?

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

Here is the revised wish recipe that works for me in plplot/tmp

wish
% lappend auto_path [pwd]
/usr/lib/tcl8.3 /usr/lib /usr/lib/tk8.3 /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/plplot_working5/tmp
% package require Plplotter
5.1.0
% source runAllDemos.tcl

I can click any example button in the GUI that comes up, and the appropriate
example is plotted (with the correct black background so the defaults
are working right without having to explicitly source anything).

I have just changed examples/tk/README.tkdemos accordingly.

Note that the plplot/tmp pkgIndex.tcl has been revised so that

set file [file join $dir drivers tkwind_drv[info sharedlibextension]]

for both instances.

If I go to the installed examples directory, it is a different story.

cd /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/examples/tk
wish
% lappend auto_path /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0
/usr/lib/tcl8.3 /usr/lib /usr/lib/tk8.3 /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0
% package require Plplotter
Can't find a usable plplot.tcl in the following directories:
    /usr/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl /usr/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl /lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl
/usr/library /library /plplot5.1.0/tcl/library /plplot5.1.0/tcl/library



This probably means that plplot wasn't installed properly.

If I do the same thing with wish_private, where wish_private is a symlink
to fool tcl into looking in the /usr/local/plplot tree, i.e.,

ls -l /usr/local/plplot/bin/wish_private
lrwxrwxrwx    1 software software       13 Aug  6 12:28 /usr/local/plplot/bin/wish_private -> /usr/bin/wish*

then:

wish_private
% lappend auto_path /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0
/usr/lib/tcl8.3 /usr/lib /usr/local/plplot/lib /usr/lib/tk8.3 /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0
% package require Plplotter
5.1.0
% source runAllDemos.tcl
% invalid command name "x03"

That last error message was generated when I clicked the 3rd example button
on the GUI that came up.

BTW, I followed Vince's instructions and for this test I put pkgIndex.tcl
into /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0  (not the tcl subdirectory).  For
that version I had

grep tkwin /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/pkgIndex.tcl
        set file [file join $dir ../ libtkwind[info sharedlibextension]]
	set file [file join $dir ../ libtkwind[info sharedlibextension]]

and of course the symlink:

ls -l /usr/local/plplot/lib/libtkwind.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 software software       55 Aug  6 12:14 /usr/local/plplot/lib/libtkwind.so -> /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/drivers/tkwind_drv.so*

Time for me to bow out of these tcl install problems associated with wish,
and let the experts take over.  Maurice, can you verify the problem above
and would you be willing to follow up?  I would ask Vince, but he doesn't
have access to a Linux box.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
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