RE: [Tclxml-users] Report of my attempt to install tcldom 2.2 (fwd)

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

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> From: "Larry W. Virden" <lv...@ca...>
> Subject: [Tclxml-users] Report of my attempt to install tcldom 2.2
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Here are my experiences after having read the message below.

1.	Got head of Tcl 8.3.4 branch
1.a		Compiled and installed in playground/sandbox
2.	Got head of tclxml/tcldom
2.a		Ran autoconf
2.b.		Configured with same prefix as tcl, did --enable-xml2
			configure did not find xml2

	There is nothing in the docs telling us
	where we can get libxml2. Stop.

Nit: make distclean leaves two directories behind, library and src-libxml2
(in the build directory). Can be explained because srcdir contains these
two directories too, often builddir = srcdir.

I tried a second configure of tcldom, with --disable-xml2.
No errors for that.

Compilation fails nevertheless because the makefile tried to compile the
sources in src-libxml2 despite the fact that I just told it that libxml2
is not available.

	That is not acceptable. A configure option which does nothing at all.


More comments below.

> 1. The activestate cvs snapshot does not apparently reflect tcldom 2.2 -
> anyone know why?

No. At least the changelog in the latest snapshot (Aug 12) looks as if it
is a part of tcldom 2.2.

> 2. The sf.net tar file didn't include top level configure -
> is configure supposed to be done elsewhere?  The README isn't clear.

IMHO the source distribution has to have a 'configure'. For a checkout from
the CVS the situation is more fuzzy.

> 3. After I ran autoconf to create the configure, configure
> reports this error:
> configure: error: cannot run /bin/ksh config/config.sub

Not here.

> 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

Not here.

> 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.

Yep, exactly what I encountered too.

> 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

Speculation: It seems as if the script install still does rely on the
information provided by the configure script.

>
> 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.

The src directory contains the generic tcldom sources. The framework where
parsers etc can plug themselves into.

src-libxml2 contains the glue code wrapping around libxml2 and making it
useable by the tcldom framework in src. Essentially a separate package.

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