Joost ´t Hart wrote:
Hi!
> Hm, ectl is at 8.5.6 something.
>
> Ubuntu (intrepid) seems to be at 8.5.3-3.
>
> Anyone who knows a validated track around this?
Well...
cat *.pgn > new.pgn
and use new.pgn
> I am not really willing
> to replace my native stuff with true externals. Never know what exactly
> will happen then.
Usually, you could install such a distribution to /usr/local/ and given
your path is pointing there first it should use that distribution and
ignore the systems supplied version. I'd recommend stow to handle it
(ie. install to /usr/local/stow/... and let stow handle the links to
/usr/local subdirs.)
You could also use some /opt/etcl/8.5.6 to keep it entirely outside your
usual paths and just use it for scid by means of a simple startup
wrapper that contains something like
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/opt/etcl/8.5.6/bin:$PATH
exec scid
I'd recommend the latter in case you run some critical apps on your
system or if security issues get involved as the usual TCL setup then
still would get the fixes from your distribution. (However, one might
argue that in this case Ubuntu is surely not the first choice anyway.)
But you're right, all this is not really a solution, and only hope is
that the tcl-people will fix this.
> Any other known scid-related flaws that I should be aware of?
Its not a Scid problem it's a TCL bug in 8.5.x.
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