[MACTCL] Re: TclCurl not working in TclTK Aqua BI 8.4.9

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

Sam,

thanks much for reporting this

On 19/04/2005, at 10:16, sa...@mc... wrote:

> Daniel,
>    I have downloaded and installed the 8.4.9 TCL BI distro and when i  
> try
> to use the tclcurl stuff i get an init error:
>
> Candace-McLanes-Computer:~ candacemclane$ tclsh
> % package require TclCurl
> 0.12.2
> % curl::transfer -url http://10.1.1.15
> Could not init a curl session: invalid command name "::curl::init"
> % exit
> Candace-McLanes-Computer:~ candacemclane$ which tclsh
> /usr/bin/tclsh
> Candace-McLanes-Computer:~ candacemclane$ uname -a
> Darwin Candace-McLanes-Computer.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version  
> 7.9.0:
> Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
> Power Macintosh powerpc
> Candace-McLanes-Computer:~ candacemclane$
>
> Any thoughts?

the problem is with the pkgIndex.tcl file in  
/Library/Tcl/tclcurl0.12.2, it doesn't actually load the tclcurl binary  
extension at all, as it currently has:
	package ifneeded TclCurl 0.12.2 [list source [file join $dir  
tclcurl.tcl]]
instead it should read:
	package ifneeded TclCurl 0.12.2 [list load [file join $dir  
libtclcurl0.12.2.dylib]]\n[list source [file join $dir tclcurl.tcl]]
(all in one line). If you make that change, [package require TclCurl]  
will work as expected.

The problem is caused by a dependency bug in the tclcurl Makefile that  
gets exposed by parallel make: the pkgIndex.tcl target does not depend  
on the LIB_FILE target, so with parallel make, the pkgIndex.tcl target  
can be executed before the library is built...

Jeff, this is actually a bug in the tcl sampleextension Makefile.in as  
well, c.f. patch below.

Cheers,

Daniel

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Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tcl/sampleextension/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.53
diff -u -p -r1.53 Makefile.in
--- Makefile.in	24 Mar 2005 22:27:26 -0000	1.53
+++ Makefile.in	19 Apr 2005 12:56:01 -0000
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ VPATH = $(srcdir):$(srcdir)/generic:$(sr
  # the configure script output the pkgIndex.tcl by editing configure.in.
   
#======================================================================= 
=

-pkgIndex.tcl:
+pkgIndex.tcl: $(PKG_LIB_FILE)
  	( echo pkg_mkIndex . $(PKG_LIB_FILE) \; exit; ) | $(TCLSH)

  pkgIndex.tcl-hand: