Re: [Plplot-devel] cvs head versus Tcl/Tk 8.4.1

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 > But, the Tk driver only works if I build against an old Tcl/Tk.  cvs
 > head's Tk driver does not work when built against Tcl/Tk 8.4.1.  If
 > you type x01c, tk, it just hangs.  If you try to run plserver
 > directly, it exits immediately with error code 1.
 > [...]
 > With cvs head built against Tcl/Tk 8.3.3, ./plserver pops up a top
 > level and gives you a prompt.
 > 
 > So, something is wrong with that.  

Grrrr.  I was able, with lots of recompiling the universe, to get as
far as stepping through plserver, to find that the source of the
trouble is that the call to Itcl_Init in tkMain.c, fails, which causes
plserver to exit straight away.

I cannot see why this fails.  But for whatever reason, Itcl 3.2.1,
appears to be incompatible with Tcl 8.4.1.  I tried to debug inside
the Itcl_Init call, but alas, the itcl 3.2.1 configure script emits a
bogus makefile if you configure --enable-symbols, and so you can't
build a debuggable itcl 3.2.1.  I guess one could hack the makefile
after configuring, but I'm getting winded after all this skulldugery. 

Vince, you reported success with Tcl/Tk 8.4.1.  Was that with
Itcl/Itk, or not?  If so, what itcl are you using?  There has been no
Itcl release since the release of Tcl/Tk 8.4.1.

I should add, if you build Itcl/Itk 3.2.1 against Tcl/Tk 8.4.1, you
/can/ get an itk wish, just by going into tclsh and saying package
require Itk.  So that works fine.  But the tkMain.c call to Itcl_Init,
fails, but it worked with itcl 3.2.1 built against Tcl/Tk 8.3.x.

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Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...