[bug-sourceinstall] Re: please help on sourceinstall invoke

[Zhou Peiqing \( Isabel \)]

Claudio,

After I got a new version of tclsh, all problem was solved.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Isabel
Claudio Fontana wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> --- "Zhou Peiqing ( Isabel )" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I was trying to invoke sourceinstall with or
> > without parameter specified, I
> > always get following  errors.
> >
> > ***********************************
> > bad option "normalize": should be atime, copy,
> > delete, dirname, executable,
> > exists, extension, isdirectory, isfile, join, lstat,
> > mtime, mkdir, owned,
> > pathtype, readable, readlink, rename, root, size,
> > split, stat, tail, type, or
> > writable
> >     while executing
> > "file normalize $argv0"
> >     invoked from within
> > "file dirname [file normalize $argv0]..."
> >     invoked from within
> > "file dirname [file dirname [file normalize
> > $argv0]]..."
> >     invoked from within
> > "set prefix [file dirname [file dirname [file
> > normalize $argv0]]]..."
> >     (file "/home/izhou/bin/sourceinstall" line 94)
> 
> It seems that your tcl interpreter is too old.
> Version 0.3 of the Source Installer includes handy
> version checks. This means that you can now run for
> example
> 
> $ ./configure | more
> 
> and you will find your tools versions among the
> checks.
> 
> > ************************************************
> >
> > If I add # ahead of line 94,  following error
> > occured.
> > **********************************************
> > can't find package Tk
> >     while executing
> > "package require Tk"
> >     (file "/home/izhou/bin/sourceinstall" line 3032)
> > *******************************************
> 
> Seems you miss the tcl Tk package too.
> 
> > If I continue #, init_fonts, init_widget_default,
> > init_wm will run into problem
> > step by step.
> >
> > I didn't see any errors in the setup procedure, but
> > I made some modification on
> > the procedure based on the instruction.
> >
> > 1. ./configure --exec-prefix=/home/usr
> > --infodir=/home/usr --mandir=/home/usr to
> > fit my working environment.
> 
> You can achieve the same thing by just saying:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/home/usr
> 
> See ./configure --help output for more information
> 
> > 2. I run both make and make install under
> > /home/usr/download/sourceinstall-0.2.
> >
> > Could you please take a time to look into the
> > problem? If more detailed
> > infomation need, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Isabel
> 
> I suggest you to fetch the new 0.3 release, then run
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/home/usr
> 
> and see which packages are missing, and install them.
> If you need/want to install them from source here they
> are:
> 
> Tcl and Tk : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl
> Expect : http://expect.nist.gov/#unix
> 
> Do ask again if you still have troubles getting
> sourceinstall to work or if you have trouble setting
> up your tcl interpreter, but please provide your full
> OS name (try 'uname -a') and package versions.
> 
> Claudio
> 
> 
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