Re: [tcljava-dev] Re: PATCH: Jacl

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:15:03 -0600
Tom Poindexter <tpo...@ny...> wrote:

> > > > > Here are some patches to Jacl
> > > > 
> > > > > 3. jaclsh: sets 'jacl.tcllibpath' property so that init.tcl can add the 
> > > > >    installed lib path to auto_path.
> > 
> > Just an FYI here, but I rejected this 'jacl.tcllibpath' patch because
> > the TCLLIBPATH property already provides this functionality.
> > 
> > Snip from current init.tcl:
>  
> > if {[info exists env(TCLLIBPATH)]} {
> >     lappend auto_path $env(TCLLIBPATH)
> > }
> 
> 
> This does not work in the CVS version.  I built the CVS version clean (none of
> my patches):

You need to pass it as a property, just like the jacl.tcllibpath property in your patch.

java -DTCLLIBPATH=/bar tcl.lang.Shell
% set env(TCLLIBPATH)
/bar
% set auto_path
resource:/tcl/lang/library /bar

cheers
Mo