Re: Building Insight (2)

[Syd Polk <spolk at cygnus dot com>]

Jim Ingham wrote:
> 
> Also sprach Cor van Loos:
> 
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I downloaded the insight+dejagnu-2000-0612.tar.bz2 file and decompressed it.
> >
> > After that I did the following:
> >
> >
> > bash-2.04$ mkdir win32
> > bash-2.04$ cd win32
> > bash-2.04$ ../insight/configure --target=h8300-hms
> > ...
> > ... (All goes okay here, I think..)
> > ...
> > bash-2.04$ make
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > make  all-recursive
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/win32/libgui'
> > Making all in library
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/win32/libgui/library'
> > TCL_LIBRARY=../../../insight/libgui/library/../../tcl/library; export
> > TCL_LIBRAR
> > Y; \
> > here=`pwd`; \
> > \
> > cd ../../../insight/libgui/library && \
> > echo " auto_mkindex `pwd` advice.tcl balloon.tcl bbox.tcl bgerror.tcl
> > bindings
> > .tcl canvas.tcl cframe.tcl center.tcl debug.tcl def.tcl internet.tcl
> > font.tcl ge
> > nsym.tcl gettext.tcl hooks.tcl lframe.tcl list.tcl looknfeel.tcl menu.tcl
> > mono.t
> > cl multibox.tcl parse_args.tcl path.tcl postghost.tcl prefs.tcl print.tcl
> > sendpr
> > .tcl topbind.tcl toolbar.tcl treetable.tcl ulset.tcl wframe.tcl wingrab.tcl
> > vent
> > ry.tcl combobox.tcl pane.tcl panedwindow.tcl tree.tcl" |
> > $here/../../itcl/itcl/u
> > nix/itclsh.exe
> > /win32/libgui/library/../../itcl/itcl/unix/itclsh.exe: not found
> > make[3]: *** [tclIndex] Error 127
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/win32/libgui/library'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/win32/libgui'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/win32/libgui'
> > make: *** [all-libgui] Error 2
> > bash-2.04$
> >
> 
> Yeah, this looks like a configure bug in libgui.  I vaguely remember fixing
> this in the past (or maybe Chris or Syd did?)?  Anyway, the configure is
> setting ITCL_SH to point to the unix directory.  Clearly, it should
> conditionalize based on whether the HOST is windows or not, and look in the
> win directory if it is.
> 
> I think you can fix this with an environment variable, so if itclsh.exe is
> in /win32/itcl/itcl/win, then try:
> 
> make ITCL_SH=/win32/itcl/itcl/win/itclsh.exe
> 
> If this doesn't work, just go edit libgui/Makefile, and replace the
> unix/itclsh.exe with win/itclsh.exe, and that also will work.
> 
> Somebody should fix this (not me, I ain't got no Windows boxes...)
> 
> P.S. I also agree with Keith that libgui should NOT be trying to make the
> tclIndex as part of the build.  It is too fragile, particularly since the
> wrong version of Itclsh can cause really bad things to happen...
> 

I probably broke this on Tuesday. I will look at this tomorrow when I am
back in the office.

> Jim
> Apple Computer