Error with "package require" in Tcl 8.5a1

From: Anthony Davis (adavis000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 29 Oct 2004 11:18:01 -0700

Hello All,
I downloaded the latest sources for Tcl, thread, Tk, and Tile....
After compiling each, running tests, then installing.... whenever I do
a package require I get a bunch of errors.
See below:

D:\>tclsh85t
% package require Tk 8.5
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/dde1.2/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/dde1.3/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/expect/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/reg1.1/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/Tcldom2.6/pkgIndex.tcl:
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/tcllib1.6/pkgIndex.tcl:
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/Tclxml2.6/pkgIndex.tcl:
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/tile0.4/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/tk8.4/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested
evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/tklib0.2/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/vfs1.3/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index file D:/Tcl/lib/vu2.2/pkgIndex.tcl: too
many nested
evaluations (infinite loop?)

Is anyone else seeing this and has a suggestion on how to resolve it?
I understand this is an alpha release of Tcl, so if the answer is "use
tcl8.4.7" then thats ok.

Regards,
Anthony

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