Hi David, This is a known deficiency - the introspection script that creates the tcl initialization script doesn't capture interp aliases. I don't think it's difficult to add, just hasn't been done yet.
-J David Osborne wrote: > Hi, > > Wondering if you can help with a problem. > > I am attempting to preload the trf accelerated version of tcllib's > ::md5::md5 in our naviserver config. > > As a simplified testcase to demonstrate what's happening I can do the > following: > > - use a default configuration of naviserver, e.g. in /usr/local/ns > - copy osborne-procs.tcl to/usr/local/ns/modules/tcl/osborne-procs.tcl > where osborne-procs.tcl contains: > > package require Trf > package require md5 > > - use the sample config as distributed with naviserver > /usr/local/ns/bin/nsd -c -u nsadmin -t /usr/local/ns/conf/nsd-config.tcl > > I get the following result: > > % ::md5::md5 -hex teststring > invalid command name "Hex" > > This seems to be because the tcllib md5x.tcl code, checks for the Trf > package, and if present sets up aninterp alias for the::md5::Hex > command. And this seems to be getting lost somewhere. > > line 502: > http://tcllib.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tcllib/tcllib/modules/md5/md5x.tcl?revision=1.19&view=markup > > If I subsequently add the alias manually everything is fine: > % interp alias {} ::md5::Hex {} ::hex -mode encode -- > ::md5::Hex > % ::md5::md5 -hex teststring > D67C5CBF5B01C9F91932E3B8DEF5E5F8 > > Can anyone shed any light as to what's going on here? > > > # info patchlevel > 8.5.8 > > tcllib: > Installed: 1.12-dfsg-2 > tcl-trf: > Installed: 2.1.4-dfsg-2 > > # /usr/local/ns/bin/nsd -V > NaviServer/4.99.6 > Tag: 16f91bafc825+ default tip > Built: Aug 19 2013 at 11:26:14 > Tcl version: 8.5 > Platform: linux > > > -- > David > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
