On 2008-12-09 14:07-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Hi Maurice:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> plserver
> % source tkdemos.tcl
> Segmentation fault
>
> I hope you (and any others here with an interest in Tcl/Tk) will be able to
> confirm this segfault and find a fix for it.

I have done a bit more testing of Tcl/Tk.

c/x08c -dev tk

completes without any segfaults (although there may be some Tcl/Tk bindings
screwup that happens by chance not to cause a segfault in that case).

ctest of tcl works without obvious problems.

The above segfault occurs before any interactive plotting is done.

I also tried

plserver -f tk03

in that directory (where tk03 is a script that is installed there) and also
got a segfault (this time on exit after all the interactive plots were done
with no obvious errors).

ldd -r on the installed plserver version indicates no obvious linking problems.

I found the above two segfaults by using a historical interactive testing
script I have used for older releases which basically followed the
directions in README.tkdemos.  I have fallen out the habit of using this
test script for recent releases, but obviously that was a mistake and some
bitrot has crept in for the Tk interactive examples (perhaps several
releases ago) which our Tk users have not noticed.

My current plans are to generalize and configure that script a bit and
commit it to svn so others can use it as well to help keep Tk in reasonable
shape.  But for now, if you follow the above directions you should hopefully
be able to see the two different segfaults for yourself.

Alan
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