Arjen,

If you could supply a test case then I'd be happy to try it out on Linux.
I think your experience generally with tcl / tk is much greater than mine.

Thanks

Andrew

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:32:25AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I see from the comments that the tk device is relying on the autoload
> mechanism. I have not got a Linux system at hand at the moment, so I
> can not easily test the tk device. I imagine though that autoloading
> does not deal gracefully with spaces in directory names. That is
> something I can experiment with.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arjen
> 
> On 2010-02-04 21:23, Andrew Ross wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> > 
> > I've taken a quick look at this and, like you, can't see an immediate cause.
> > My experience with debugging the tk bindings is only slightly more than 
> > yours. I'll keep looking.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:32:29PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> >> Hi Andrew:
> >>
> >> I am getting this strange embedded blank result with -dev tk.
> >>
> >> softw...@raven> c/x01c -dev tk
> >> PLplot library version: 5.9.5
> >> TCL command "plclient_init" failed:
> >>          invalid command name "plclient_init"
> >> TCL command "plclient_link_end" failed:
> >>          invalid command name "plclient_link_end"
> >> Program aborted
> >> softw...@raven> c/x01c -dev tk
> >> PLplot library version: 5.9.5
> >> TCL command "plclient_init" failed:
> >>           invalid command name "plclient_init"
> >> TCL command "plclient_link_end" failed:
> >>           invalid command name "plclient_link_end"
> >>
> >> The problem disappears if the build, source, and install trees do not have
> >> embedded blanks in their top-level directory names.  I arranged that with a
> >> symlink of "plplot svn" to plplot_svn for one prefix component of the 
> >> build,
> >> source, and install trees.
> >>
> >> For the "plplot svn" case, I did fix up pkgIndex.tcl.in components in
> >> revision 10782 so that all directory names were quoted, but it made no
> >> difference, and furthermore when I changed the resulting
> >> bindings/pkgIndex.tcl file to replace "plplot svn" with plplot_svn it made
> >> no difference.
> >>
> >> So this "embedded blank" issue appears to be more fundamental than can be
> >> accounted for by simple *.tcl changes.
> >>
> >> Would you be willing to take a look?
> >>
> >> Alan
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