Re: New Interpreter (was RE: Marketing Xconq?)

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Richard Hunt wrote:

> I am using Debian, but I am a bit anally retentive (how do you 
>spell that :) 

AR ;-)

>so I do my installation entirely using dselect, 
>which seems to avoid installing a lot of packages that I want. I 
>tend to avoid tcl/tk programs simply because they tend to be slow 
>on my old computer, and xconq is the only tcl/tk program I still 
>want to run.

I understand. Up until the beginning of last year, I was in the 
same situtation. Even now, I am very discriminating about what I 
install; I guess old habits die hard.

> Another thing I just remembered: with the version that I am 
>using (a CVS checkout from about a month ago, since I don't have 
>internet access on my pc during term time) 

That is probably better for the grades (marks), I imagine. :-)

>there is a 
>config.cache file in the xconq directory which means that eg. the 
>--tclconfigdir and ---tkconfigdir flags are ignored.

Hmmm... That probably shouldn't be there.
You should be able to do a "make distclean" to make it go away 
though. Or "rm".

Eric