Re: [Activetcl] Another Bug in Tcl Dev Kit 4.1 Installation on Windows
by Michael Bahr other posts by this author
Apr 29 2008 10:26AM messages near this date
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Re: [Activetcl] Another Bug in Tcl Dev Kit 4.1 Installation on Windows
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[Activetcl] Bug in Tcl Dev Kit 4.1 TclApp on Windows
> > Hello, when installing TDK 4.1 all went well until the Teapot thing.
>
> Can you give me a more exact string from the log I can look for ?
Sorry log gone, already uninstalled TDK 4.1 and reinstalled TDK 4.04 due
to the default working directory being different then that of previous
versions.
>
> > A
> > blank dialog box popped up and the install stopped. I
> waited several
> > minutes and still stopped.
>
> We have not seen that in our test installs before. Can you
> tell us a bit more about the machine you were installing TDK on ?
> I.e. was this on Win Vista? Win XP? win 2K?
My home machine running XP Pro SP2, Intel DC2D
>
> Had you ActiveTcl installed ? If yes, which version ?
Yes, many times-many versions. My current version is 8.4.18. I have
actually upgraded ActiveTcl 3-4 times (uninstalling then installing)
since 1/1/07.
>
> > There was no indication of progress or anything. So I
> cancelled the
> > dialog box and installation continued a little further and another
> > dialog box popped up and installation again stopped. Again
> I waited
> > several minutes with again the same results as before--nothing. I
> > again cancelled the dialog box and the installation
> completed with no
> > errors.
>
> My theory, based on this description, is, that you have an
> ActiveTcl installed where the 'teacup' has a bug which causes
> it to not deal well with a 'wish' shell when it interogates
> it for 'teacup link info'. The bug is that 'teacup' is not
> explicitly 'exit'ing the shell. This is fine when a 'tclsh'
> is queried, but a 'wish' will put up its standard empty
> toplevel window and then enter the event loop instead of
> exiting on its own.
>
Mmm ok.
> The TDK installer now uses 'teacup link info' on all the
> clsh's and wish'es found in the PATH to locate all the local
> repositories TclApp could use, and can this run into teacup's bug.
>
> That we are not seeing it here during our tests could be
> explained by us using a newer ActiveTcl, where teacup's bug is fixed.
>
>
> The fix?
> (1) Either install a newer ActiveTcl before installing TclDevKit,
> (2) or use 'teacup's 'update-self' command to upgrade the 'teacup'
> application in your ActiveTcl installation to a version
> without the bug.
I just found out there is a new ActiveTcl 8.4.19 available. I will
install that this week.
Thank you, Mike...
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> --
> Andreas Kupries <andreask@[...].com>
> Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
> Tel: +1 778-786-1122
>
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