Re: [MACTCL] Enable Tk/Tcl

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Hi Dieter,

On 19/06/2012 9:16 AM, Dieter Buyst wrote:
> I'm currently running a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7 (Lion)
> I recently installed the TcLTkAquaBI-distribution because it supports
> the Tix-widget library, now I'm fairly new to mac and I'm wondering how

The AquaBI distro is quite old.  I'm not sure that it will work well on 
Lion, as it was last built when perhaps even Leopard was new.

You might consider instead ActiveTcl (http://www.activestate.com/tcl). 
It also has the Tix library available via the 'teacup' (sudo teacup 
install Tix).

> you can make sure that the TclTkAqua distribution is the 'active' one on
> your mac. I ask this because some programs I try to install aren't able
> to find the Tix module even though the binary is completely installed.
> Do you have to set a specific environment variable in your .profile-file
> or something else ?

ActiveTcl will install in /usr/local, so you just need to have 
/usr/local/bin precede /usr/bin in your profile.

Jeff