Re: AIX support

From: Jim Klucar (james.klucar_at_ngc.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: 20 Aug 2004 05:55:50 -0700

Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@removethis.activestate.com> wrote in message news:<41256024.80005@removethis.activestate.com>...
> Jim Klucar wrote:
> > I have a tcl application (graphing) that uses Tcl/Tk 8.4.3,
> > incrTcl/Tk, Iwidgets, and BLT. Another programmer would like to use
> > my software to display his results on an AIX machine. I compiled
> > everything on his AIX box (in the default /usr/local) but now they
> > would like to be able to distribute the software to other facilities.
> > I thought I could do this, but it seems that the paths to all the BLT,
> > Itk, etc libraries are hard-coded somewhere I can't find, so when I
> > move the interpreter directory structure, it breaks on the package
> > require command.
> >
> > for example, tcl is installed in:
> > /usr/local/bin/wish8.4
> > /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4.3
> > etc.
> >
> > I would like to move everything to:
> > /some/other/long/path/bin/wish8.4
> > /some/other/long/path/lib/tcl8.4.3
> > etc. (without re-compiling)
> >
> >
> > How do I fix this? I found ActiveTcl Enterprise Edition that claims
> > to be able to compile my code and an interpreter together, however I
> > can't find anything that says they support BLT.
>
> ActiveTcl EE does support AIX, but BLT is certainly an issue.
> We do provide support for it as an optional extra, but only as
> part of a customized distribution. It doesn't lend itself to
> being part of a wrapped application because it doesn't support
> the Tcl stubs mechanism. There are patches to make this work,
> but you have to apply the and do the builds yourself (or we
> can do that, but that might get too expensive for you).

Since I have already gone through the pains of compiling everything on
AIX, if I could just move the interpreter and all the libraries to
some arbitrary directory, that would solve my problem. What files
must I change if I want to move wish8.4 to some other path and have it
still find all the libraries it needs?

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