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Re: building Tk from the src tree
- From: "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt at redhat dot com>
- To: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>, "insight at sources dot redhat dot com" <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 13 Oct 2003 13:26:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: building Tk from the src tree
- Organization: Red Hat Inc.
- References: <87ekxhvetx.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <1066059763.1675.3.camel@lindt.uglyboxes.com>
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:42, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 23:20, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > I'm trying to build Tcl/Tk from the src tree on a Cygwin system that
> > has no previous installation of Tcl/Tk. I'm striking a problem
> > whereby tk/win/configure invokes SC_PROG_TCLSH to find a tclsh shell
> > for building purposes -- it searches the user's $PATH and the build
> > tree for tclsh, but the tcl build directory will have only been
> > configured, not built. How is this meant to work?
> >
>
> I just noticed this myself. Since we now use the same configury as the
> standard Tcl and Tk (the installation dir tweak aside), I would say this
> is a problem with Tk configury upstream.
Actually we don't really use the same configury. Importing tcl/tk 8.4.1
and getting Insight to use it was trivial. But I spent days on
configury stuff trying to get it to work in our framework. It wouldn't
surprise me at all to find there were lots of errors in it.
--
Martin M. Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
Red Hat Inc.