Problem running insight on Fedora 9

Problem running insight on Fedora 9

[Martin Rakhmanov]

Neither insight-6.6 nor insight-6.8 run on Fedora 9 with latest updates:

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[martin@home insight-6.8]$ ./gdb/insight
Tk_Init failed: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories:
     /home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library 
/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tcl/tk8.4 
/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/lib/tk8.4 
/home/martin/Download/lib/tk8.4 
/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/library /home/martin/Download/library 
/home/martin/Download/tk8.4.1/library /home/martin/tk8.4.1/library

/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library/tk.tcl: no event type or 
button # or keysym
no event type or button # or keysym
     while executing
"bind Listbox <MouseWheel> {
     %W yview scroll [expr {- (%D / 120) * 4}] units
}"
     (file "/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library/listbox.tcl" 
line 182)
     invoked from within
"source /home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library/listbox.tcl"
     (in namespace eval "::" script line 1)
     invoked from within
"namespace eval :: [list source [file join $::tk_library $file.tcl]]"
     (procedure "SourceLibFile" line 2)
     invoked from within
"SourceLibFile listbox"
     (in namespace eval "::tk" script line 4)
     invoked from within
"namespace eval ::tk {
	SourceLibFile button
	SourceLibFile entry
	SourceLibFile listbox
	SourceLibFile menu
	SourceLibFile panedwindow
	SourceLibFile ..."
     invoked from within
"if {$::tk_library ne ""} {
     if {[string equal $tcl_platform(platform) "macintosh"]} {
	proc ::tk::SourceLibFile {file} {
	    if {[catch {
		namesp..."
     (file "/home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library/tk.tcl" line 393)
     invoked from within
"source /home/martin/Download/insight-6.8/tk/library/tk.tcl"
     ("uplevel" body line 1)
     invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list source $file]"


This probably means that tk wasn't installed properly.
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I found this: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/tcl-core/3668443

"Your system has a very recent release of X11 from X.org.  That release
broke interface compatibility, so you also must get the very latest
release of Tk, 8.5.4, that's been modified to account for that."


If that's the case with insight too: are there any plans to update Tcl/Tk?

Thanks

Re: Problem running insight on Fedora 9

[Keith Seitz]

Martin Rakhmanov wrote:

> I found this: 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/tcl-core/3668443
> 
> "Your system has a very recent release of X11 from X.org.  That release
> broke interface compatibility, so you also must get the very latest
> release of Tk, 8.5.4, that's been modified to account for that."
> 
> 
> If that's the case with insight too: are there any plans to update Tcl/Tk?

Grab a snapshot and use that. I've ripped tcl, tk, and itcl out of our 
sources, so you can build using a system-supplied variety. You're going 
to run into other problems, though, with loading some widget set. And I 
think there was a packaging problem with one of the -devel packages that 
I had to work around. Or something. It has been quite a while since I 
looked at this. I'm still basically using F8.

Nonetheless, report back any problems here and we can work though them.

Keith

PS. You'll need tcl, tk, itcl, iwidgets and their -devel RPMs installed.

Re: Problem running insight on Fedora 9

[Keith Seitz]

Martin Rakhmanov wrote:
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/insight/snapshots/current/ is empty. Is this 
> proper location to fetch a snapshot from?

Hmm. Don't know what happened to all the snapshots... I've gotta run, 
but I'm trying to make one now. It should show up in about an hour.

Keith