Re: Results for Automake 1.7.9 on sparc-solaris: 4 failures

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Richard,

Richard Dawe wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>
> > > > > "Dalibor" == Dalibor Topic <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > [...]
> >
> > Dalibor> those seem to come from tcl errors.
> >
> > My impression is that DejaGNU is misinstalled, but I'm not a
> > DejaGNU user and unfortunately Tcl is Chinese to me.
>
>
> Well, I don't know any Chinese, but I know some TCL. It looks to me like the
> version of TCL isn't recent enough to support the "pathtype" parameter on the
> file command.
>
> The TCL home page is here:
>
>     http://www.tcl.tk/
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work very well right now.
>
> "file pathtype" seems to have been in TCL since 7.5, perhaps even 7.4. My
> RedHat 6.2 box has TCL 8.0, so you can guess how old 7.4/7.5 are.

According to http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/relnotes/tk4.1.txt it's 
been introduced in Tcl 7.5 .

> I can't remember the TCL to tell you what version you're running. Try
> something like this:
>
>     grep TCL_VERSION /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh
>
> or:
>
>     find / -name tclConfig.sh | xargs grep TCL_VERSION

DejaGNU's runtest --version says:

runtest --version
WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
Expect version is       5.7.0
Tcl version is          7.3
Framework version is    1.4.1

cheers,
dalibor topic