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 > >> __________________________ > >> Alan W. 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