[MACTCL] "proper" arrangement for packages?

[Jon G. <jg...@hi...>]

I'm trying to provide a newer universal build of TclAE. What Apple  
ships is completely broken on Intel and I've had at least one user  
report that the ppc binary had been stripped out somehow (I'm not  
ruling out operator error), rendering it completely useless even for  
use under Rosetta.

TclAE has .tcl scripts that it needs, and in the past it always got  
built as a bundle by Xcode, but Daniel changed it to a TEA build  
process last year, apparently at the behest of ActiveState. make only  
produces a binary .dylib file for me now. I don't know anything about  
TEA, and as far as I can tell, there isn't any relevant documentation  
(PDFs from six years ago wouldn't seem to have much to offer when it  
comes to building a universal .dylib).

I have determined that if I put libtclAE2.0.2.dylib, along with its  
pkgIndex.tcl and its required .tcl scripts into a directory  
("tclAE2.0.2") and then move that directory into my tcl_pkgPath, then  
it gets loaded just fine by [package require]. On the other hand,  
Apple ships tclAE2.0 as a bundle in /System/Library/Tcl/. So, which  
is preferred? As far as I can tell, TEA doesn't provide any help for  
generating either, is that correct?



I ran across this exchange between Kevin and Bernard a few months ago  
[Re: [MACTCL] ANN: tclAppleHelp 1.1], which may be related. In my  
case, I can load tclAppleHelp 1.1 (although the pkgIndex.tcl file  
thinks it's 1.0) into either tclsh or Alpha on a G4 Mac running  
10.4.9, but I cannot load it into either tclsh or Alpha on an Intel  
Mini running 10.4.10:

Error: no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/Users/admin/Library/Tcl/tclAppleHelp/universal-macosx/ 
tclAppleHelp.dylib: not a dylib

Like Bernard, lipo and file both indicate that i386 binaries are  
present and I can execute the individual steps of tclAppleHelp's  
pkgIndex.tcl file without a problem, but nothing actually seems to be  
loaded. If I [load /Users/admin/Library/Tcl/tclAppleHelp/universal- 
macosx/tclAppleHelp.dylib], I get "image not found".