work for me. On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 09:47 AM, Thompson,Roger wrote:
> The Lehigh Link seems to have gone away. > Does anyone have this archived ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:42 AM > To: MacOSX Perl > Subject: Re: Perl/Tk on Mac os X > > > I tried this out and it works great!! Thanks for all of your help. > > -Aaron > > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:33 am, Rick Frankel wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:57:48AM -0500, aaron wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> Does anyone have any updated information on perl/Tk for OS X? Most > of >>> my stuff at work uses perl/Tk and I was over-joyed to install Tk on my >>> Mac. To my chagrin it crashes exactly like described below. Is there > an >>> OS X -compatible version available now? Does anyone know what causes >>> this problem? I'm assuming it's a C thing... >> >> Whoops. I guess I should have followed up on this... >> >> Anyway, via macintouch comes this link: >> >> http://www.lehigh.edu/~sol0/Macintosh/X/ptk/ >> >> the short of it is that -03 optimization breaks perl/tk. Here's the >> relevant excerpt from the above on the solution: >> >> * Install the modified dynamic loader per >> http://www.lehigh.edu/Macintosh/X/ptk/dyld-tk. * Now compile Tk800.023. > The >> caveat: you cannot use -O3, which is the default, determined from how >> Perl >> itself was compiled. Here's the trick as described by Michael Doster (who >> made the dyld mods described above): >> >> Under the pTk source directory edit the file Tk/MMutil.pm. >> In the subroutine cflags make the following change at the end: >> >> $_ .= "\nOPTIMIZE=\n"; >> $_; >> } # end subroutine cflags. >> >> >> BTW, personally tested and used (I can't live w/o -d:ptkdb :) >> >> rick >
