Hi Andrew, will do. Could you send me the Tcl/Tk files as found in the installation (probably best to it off list, so as not to muddy the information flow)? I would like to see what the substituted directory names look like.
Regards, Arjen On 2010-02-05 09:39, Andrew Ross wrote: > Arjen, > > If you could supply a test case then I'd be happy to try it out on Linux. > I think your experience generally with tcl / tk is much greater than mine. > > Thanks > > Andrew > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:32:25AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I see from the comments that the tk device is relying on the autoload >> mechanism. I have not got a Linux system at hand at the moment, so I >> can not easily test the tk device. I imagine though that autoloading >> does not deal gracefully with spaces in directory names. That is >> something I can experiment with. >> >> Regards, >> >> Arjen >> >> On 2010-02-04 21:23, Andrew Ross wrote: >>> Hi Alan, >>> >>> I've taken a quick look at this and, like you, can't see an immediate cause. >>> My experience with debugging the tk bindings is only slightly more than >>> yours. I'll keep looking. >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:32:29PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: >>>> Hi Andrew: >>>> >>>> I am getting this strange embedded blank result with -dev tk. >>>> >>>> softw...@raven> c/x01c -dev tk >>>> PLplot library version: 5.9.5 >>>> TCL command "plclient_init" failed: >>>> invalid command name "plclient_init" >>>> TCL command "plclient_link_end" failed: >>>> invalid command name "plclient_link_end" >>>> Program aborted >>>> softw...@raven> c/x01c -dev tk >>>> PLplot library version: 5.9.5 >>>> TCL command "plclient_init" failed: >>>> invalid command name "plclient_init" >>>> TCL command "plclient_link_end" failed: >>>> invalid command name "plclient_link_end" >>>> >>>> The problem disappears if the build, source, and install trees do not have >>>> embedded blanks in their top-level directory names. I arranged that with a >>>> symlink of "plplot svn" to plplot_svn for one prefix component of the >>>> build, >>>> source, and install trees. >>>> >>>> For the "plplot svn" case, I did fix up pkgIndex.tcl.in components in >>>> revision 10782 so that all directory names were quoted, but it made no >>>> difference, and furthermore when I changed the resulting >>>> bindings/pkgIndex.tcl file to replace "plplot svn" with plplot_svn it made >>>> no difference. >>>> >>>> So this "embedded blank" issue appears to be more fundamental than can be >>>> accounted for by simple *.tcl changes. >>>> >>>> Would you be willing to take a look? >>>> >>>> Alan >>>> __________________________ >>>> Alan W. 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