Re: [Plplot-devel] Prescriptions for running tkdemos.tcl under wish and tcldemos.tcl under tclsh

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Thursday 26 September 2002 15:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
=2E..
> (2) As reported yesterday, I could not get tcldemos.tcl to work under t=
clsh
> without setting PL_LIBRARY to /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0/tcl.  I
> presume this is also a requirement for running tkdemos.tcl under wish
> and runAllDemos.tcl under wish.  But should it be?  Under tclsh and
> wish I already execute
>
> lappend auto_path /usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.1.0
>
> Thus, shouldn't we be able to find the location of everything internall=
y by
> scanning through the directories in auto_path?  We have been through so
> many variations of the tcl/tk install that I cannot remember clearly an=
y
> more, but I believe there were some variations on the theme that did no=
t
> require setting PL_LIBRARY, and I hope we can get back to that.

The tk driver does not work if PL_LIBRARY is not set to "." in the tmp bu=
ild=20
directory:

~/plplot/tmp> ./plserver=20
(*AppInit) failed: can't read "pllibrary": no such variable
~/plplot/tmp> export PL_LIBRARY=3D.
~/plplot/tmp> ./plserver=20
OK

Joao