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Re: [ECOS] Beginners' problem: pkgconf.tcl
- To: jmmills@avana.net
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Beginners' problem: pkgconf.tcl
- From: Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:00:59 +0100
- CC: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905162101260.9690-100000@jm59.localdomain>
- Reply-to: bartv@cygnus.co.uk
>>>>> "John" == John Mills <jmmills@avana.net> writes:
John> As an ordinary user I now created a working directory in (say):
John> ~/cygnus/ecos-work and changed to that directory. Now when I try:
John> % tclsh /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl --help
John> I get the expected help message, but trying (say):
John> % tclsh /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl --targets
John> gets:
John> "pkgconf fatal error: Unexpected error while processing
John> /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/packages
John> can't set "pkgconf::package_data": parent namespace doesn't exist"
John> Could someone please set me straight on running the
John> configuration utility and building the basic tests from the
John> distribution? Setup and usage suggestions are also welcome.
This is a problem with some versions of tclsh (release 8.0 patchlevel
0, I believe). If you run the version of tclsh that is built as part
of the toolchain, or any later version of Tcl, then everything should
work as per the documentation.
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer