Re: Building Insight

[Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>]

I cannot reproduce this problem. I think you need to remove your 
config.cache and reconfigure, as it looks like the configure variable 
ITCL_DIR is being set incorrectly somewhere.

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
Syd Polk		spolk@redhat.com
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