Re: [tcltk-perl] Re: Re[2]: FAIL Tcl-Tk-0.80 i686-linux 2.4.18-14

[Vadim K. <va...@ar...>]

> > SR> This is on a RedHat 8.0 machine with the default Tcl and Tk (both
> > SR> version 8.3) installed from RPM:
> >
> > SR> tclsh
> > SR> % package require Tk
> > SR> can't find package Tk
> > SR> %
> >
> > SR> wish
> > SR> % package require Tk
> > SR> 8.3
> > SR> %
> >
> > This exactly means your tcl misses some autoloading support.
> >
> > There must exist a file /usr/local/lib/tk8.3/pkgIndex.tcl
> >
> > It has following contents on my cygwin system:
> > if {[package vcompare [package provide Tcl] 8.4] != 0} { return }
> > package ifneeded Tk 8.4 [list load [file join $dir .. .. bin tk84.dll]
Tk]
>
> locate pkgIndex.tcl returns the following list (excluding private and
> source directories):
>
> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/http1.0/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/http2.3/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/msgcat1.1/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/opt0.4/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/lib/tcl8.3/tcltest1.0/pkgIndex.tcl

See? That file do not exists

> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/http2.4/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/http1.0/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/opt0.4/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/msgcat1.3/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/tcltest2.2/pkgIndex.tcl
> /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/pkgIndex.tcl

See? Your tk8.4 is better, if you'll try it, you'll probably get better
results.


> /usr/local/lib/Tkzinc3.2.94/pkgIndex.tcl
>
> The /usr/lib bits are from the standard RedHat install, and the
> /usr/local/lib ones are from my own install, but this version is
> apparently not used.

Ok, to support standard RedHat 8.0 without extra recompilation we need to
work around this error.
Besides, AFAIK RedHat distribution comes without perlTk, so Tcl::Tk could be
desried there more than usual...

Asking  from tcl...@li... , how do we decide to do?

Best regards,
Vadim.