Re: Installation problem : wish

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kartik Sudeep wrote:

> I have been able to successfully make ns, tcl and tk.
> 
> However when I try to run ns, it gives a segmentation fault. I tried to run 
> "wish", the executable for tk8.0.4, but it gives the following error :
> ----------------------------
> "
> Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the 
> following directories:
>     /auto/repos/tcltk/tk8.0.3/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/gnu/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/lib/tcl8.0 
> /opt/gnu/library /opt/library /opt/tcl8.0/library /tcl8.0/library
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> "
> ----------------------------
> 
> I tried running tclsh and it runs perfectly fine.
> 
> I understand that the problem is that init.tcl is not present in any of the 
> listed directories. Can anyone tell me how I can modify these listed 
> directories ?
> 
> I know that init.tcl is present in my ../tcl8.0/library directory.

I've run into this one several times under Solaris; it seems to me to
be a misfeature in the Tcl configure, since it manages to guess almost
every directory but the right one.

I just work around it by symlinking from where it is to where it ought
to be with ln -s <target> <destination>. Crude, but effective. OTOH,
I'm only installing for myself.

This is really stuff for comp.lang.tcl ...

hth,

L.

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