[Bug 1000566] New: ecos-install.tcl install fails: "Failed to retrieve metadata"/Bad option

[Bug 1000566] New: ecos-install.tcl install fails: "Failed to retrieve metadata"/Bad option

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           Summary: ecos-install.tcl  install fails: "Failed to retrieve
                    metadata"/Bad option
           Product: eCos
           Version: 2.0
          Platform: ixdp425 (Intel XScale IXDP425 board)
               URL: http://ecos.sourceware.org/getstart.html
        OS/Version: HostOS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: high
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: jifl@ecoscentric.com
        ReportedBy: rrajapakse@bfrx.com
         QAContact: ecos-bugs@ecos.sourceware.org
             Class: ---


Downloaded as follows:
      wget --passive-ftp ftp://ecos.sourceware.org/pub/ecos/ecos-install.tcl 
Ran as followes:
      sh ecos-install.tcl 
Result is:
eCos installer v2.0 starting...
Written and maintained by Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>

Retrieving installer metadata information...

*** ecos-install.tcl error: Failed to retrieve metadata:
bad option "equal": must be compare, first, index, last, length, match, range,
tolower, toupper, trim, trimleft, trimright, wordend, or wordstart

running on:
Linux 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 on a PC
tcl ver 8.4


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[Bug 1000566] ecos-install.tcl install fails: "Failed to retrieve metadata"/Bad option

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--- Comment #2 from ravi <rrajapakse@bfrx.com>  2008-06-04 07:31:31 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> That is odd. It must be complaining about "string equal" but "string equal" has
> existed since at least Tcl 8.1, released eons ago.
> 
> For my interest, can you run the following bunch of commands for me and tell me
> the output?
> 
> which tclsh
> which tclsh83
> which cygtclsh80
> echo "puts [info tclversion]"| tclsh
> 
> Nevertheless I have made a modification to ecos-install.tcl which should allow
> it to work for you, so after you have sent the answer to the above ;-), you
> should be able to retry and it should work.
> 
> Jifl
> 

I am using tcl 8.0 - which I didn't realize was so old.

Based on your question I updated tcl to 8.5 and now the script WORKS FINE.

Thanks

----------------------------

FYI by the way, before updating tcl (using tcl 8.0) the updated script still
did not work:
sh ecos-install.tcl 
eCos installer v2.0 starting...
Written and maintained by Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>

Retrieving installer metadata information...

*** ecos-install.tcl error: Failed to retrieve metadata:
wrong # args: should be "string compare string1 string2"

----------------------------
With regard to the commands (run Before the update to tcl 8.5)

[sempron ~]# which tclsh
/opt/redhat/xscale-030422/H-i686-pc-linux-gnulibc2.2/bin/tclsh

[sempron ~]# which tclsh83
/usr/bin/which: no tclsh83 in
(/opt/redhat/xscale-030422/H-i686-pc-linux-gnulibc2.2/bin:/opt/redhat/xscale-030422/H-i686-pc-linux-gnulibc2.2/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/sd/adi/usr/local/bin::/root/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/sd/adi/usr/local/bin:)

[sempron ~]# which cygtclsh80
/usr/bin/which: no cygtclsh80 in
(/opt/redhat/xscale-030422/H-i686-pc-linux-gnulibc2.2/bin:/opt/redhat/xscale-030422/H-i686-pc-linux-gnulibc2.2/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/sd/adi/usr/local/bin::/root/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/sd/adi/usr/local/bin:)

[sempron ~]# echo "puts [info tclversion]"| tclsh
8.0
[sempron ~]# 


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--- Comment #4 from ravi <rrajapakse@bfrx.com>  2008-06-04 17:53:54 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Ah, you said initially it was tcl 8.4 :-).
> So indeed tcl 8.0 can't be supported. I would need to have it in order to
> verify what was needed to make it work. tcl 8.0 is so old now I'm not too
> worried about that, so I'm closing this bug.

Yes, I had tcl 8.4 installed, but it was picking up an old 8.0 in the search
path. So I updated and corrected the path. 
Sorry about that. 
Thanks for your time and help.


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