[Tclxml-users] Report of my attempt to install tcldom 2.2

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

1. The activestate cvs snapshot does not apparently reflect tcldom 2.2 -
anyone know why?
2. The sf.net tar file didn't include top level configure -
is configure supposed to be done elsewhere?  The README isn't clear.
3. After I ran autoconf to create the configure, configure reports this error:
configure: error: cannot run /bin/ksh config/config.sub
4. after supplying that file, configure reports this error:
checking build system type... /bin/ksh: config/config.guess:  not found
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
5. after supplying that file, configure reports this error:
checking for xml2 library file... configure: WARNING: Can't find xml2 library
README doesn't indicate where to find this library.

At this point, I gave up on that approach and tried the generic script install.

6. My attempt to run wish install.tcl generates this error:
Error in startup script: extra characters after close-brace
    while executing
"proc Slave_Component {slave type args"
    (file "./install.tcl" line 306)
7. After removing DOS ^M (thinking that was the problem), I continue
to get this error.  There is a syntax error in install.tcl
(I reported this earlier, along with a fix - what happened to that bug fix?)

proc Slave_Component {slave type args}} {
should be
proc Slave_Component {slave type args} {

8. After fixing error, running install.tcl generates this error:
Build data file is missing.
Attempting to build from /vol/tclsrcsol/tcl84/tcldom-2.2/config.status
plus a tk dialog that says:
build status file Error
Warning: An error occured while parsing the build config status data.
No macros found

I have no idea whether that is significant or not - if not, perhaps the
errors should not be generated.  If so, then perhaps the README could
be updated to let someone know what to do about it?

9. After clicking on the okay button, the process continues and this error
appears:
Don't do "package require tcllib", ask for individual modules.
(Again, this is an error I submitted a fix for during the previous release!)


10. The tcldom installer appears, with this in its status window:
No files matching pattern "./docs/*.html" were found
Again - if this is not significant, perhaps it should not be displayed.
If it is significant, then something should be said about what to do about it.

11. After cancelling that status window, the rest of the install proceeded.

I'm still uncertain about the purpose of the src and src-xml2 directories;
the README doesn't mention either.
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Tcl'2002 Sept 16, 2002, Vancouver, BC http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/
Larry W. Virden <mailto:lv...@ca...> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
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