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

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> 1. The activestate cvs snapshot does not apparently reflect tcldom 2.2 -
> anyone know why?

You would have to ask ActiveState.  I imagien they need
a little time to integrate it.

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

Oops.  I'll make sure the next release includes configure.

> 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

What can I say?  I use ProjectBuilder under MacOSX to compile
all of this stuff.  It works for me ;-)  If someone would like
to contribute fixes to the autoconf files then I will gladly
accept them.

> README doesn't indicate where to find this library.

The website lists the dependencies.  I have updated the
README with the libxml2 URL.

> 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)

Sigh.  I thought that was fixed some time ago.  Now fixed.

> 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} {

See above.

> 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

Hmmm.  Someone will need to investigate that further... Pete?

> 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!)

That must be a leftover from TclXML - TclDOM doesn't use any
tcllib modules itself.  I have removed that line from install.data.

> 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.

That's not significant, but I will make sure that the nroff and HTML
versions of the man page are in the next release.

> 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.

I've added a MANIFEST file.

I'm working on a v2.3 release to fix these problems,
but have to get the Tcl2K2 paper written first ;-)

Cheers,
Steve Ball

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