Re: [tcljava-user] Help sought configuring tcljava

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

From: Mar...@HS...

> what process did you follow to install
>threaded and non-threaded tcl (I'm assuming UNIX here). I've installed
>threaded tcl here, but think it might be nice to have an un-threaded
>version also available for general use.

I first configured and compiled tcl with threads.  I found the resulting
library and tclsh to be pretty painful in terms of speed, and I had concerns
about using it with Tk, etc.

I asked around on comp.lang.tcl and elsewhere and Jeff Hobbs asked why
I just didn't edit the Makefile to have it install the library and stand
alone interpreter as a different name, in the same directory as everything
else.  I started to hand copy things but took a look at the Makefile
generated.  I noticed that in many places, the Makefile symbol ${DBG}
is used so that both normal and a symbol enabled binaries could be installed
in parallel.  So I hand edited the Makefile to fix a few places that were
missed, then set the DBG symbol to "t".  I then re-installed the thread
version of tcl, resulting in a tclsht and libtcl8.4t.so .  I then did
a make distclean, configure, and make install and got the non-threaded
tcl installed as well.

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