Hi Alan, good to see this confirmed. I suspected as much as the stubs function table is carefuly controlled within Tcl and we do not use a lot of the Tcl API to start with.
Regards, Arjen On 2010-01-30 08:21, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-01-29 09:51+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: >> On 2010-01-28 21:21, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> However, it turns out I cannot even generate the tcl bindings source >>> code >>> with tclsh8.3! Here is the relevant trailing part of the output of "make >>> VERBOSE=1". >> >> Oh, that is due to the use of "eq" for comparing strings. It was indeed >> introduced in Tcl 8.4 for the very common situation that you need a >> comparison between strings that are definitely not a representation of >> some number. >> >> That is easy to fix. > > Thanks for that quick tclsh8.3 fix. I now confirm a version > inconsistent mixture > of tclsh8.3 and Tcl8.4 libraries builds and tests without issues (other > than > an embedded blank issue which is described in a previous post). > >>> I did find one instance of a test recommended in >>> examples/tcl/README.tcldemos that uses tclsh. My guess is incompatible >>> versions of tclsh and the Tcl libraries would wreak havoc on that >>> particular >>> test. However, to check that you will have to run that particular test >>> from >>> the command line because I haven't yet (although I hope to do so in >>> future) >>> included it in the test_noninteractive and/or test_interactive targets. >>> >> >> >> The initialisation routine checks for Tcl 8.1 - anything earlier is not >> supported. We do not use any new Tcl functions, as far as I am aware, >> so most probably all will work fine (due to the stubs mechanism). But >> that is something we need to find out. I will try this. > > I just tried that direct tclsh8.3 test (which uses "package require Pltcl" > to load our tcl bindings which are linked to libtcl8.4.) I thought that > would wreak havoc because of the inconsistency between libtcl8.3 used by > tclsh and libtcl8.4 used by our tcl bindings, but that test sailed through > without issues (for the plplot_svn case described in my previous post). > Thus, it appears that no CMake version tests for tclsh are required. So I > have now removed that test (revision 10783) and anything else to do with > HAVE_TCL_GT_84 (since you removed that from our source code). > > Thanks, again, for your tclsh8.3 fix. > > I think this concludes this issue. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
