On 2008-11-28 08:42-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Sorry, I should have been clearer. The tcl bindings build with tcl8.5, > but the itcl / itk bindings don't. So I think the situation is the same > as yours. The only other thing is that there is a bug in Ubuntu which > requires you to set ITCL_LIBRARY in order for the examples to run > correctly when itcl is used. I submitted a bug report on this some time > ago. Not sure whether it has been fixed in the recently released Ubunutu > Ibex.
I looked deeper into this issue. According to http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Tcl/comp.lang.tcl/2008-02/msg01063.html and follow-ups to that post, tcl-8.5 requires itcl-3.4. However, the highest version of itcl that Debian has packaged so far (even in experimental) is 3.2 so Debian/Ubuntu Tcl/Tk 8.5 users must go without itcl/itk unless they are willing to build itcl-3.4 for themselves. My general impression from this issue is the Tcl/Tk part of Debian is poorly maintained. On the other hand, perhaps Debian users don't care since there are no bug reports at all for any Tcl/Tk related package. I don't care that strongly myself (since itcl/itk is such a small part of PLplot), but if you want to follow this up I suggest you put together a Debian bug report requesting packaging of itcl/itk 3.4 (after you confirm that you can build those packages for yourself following the directions in the above thread). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
