RE: perl-Tk is broken

["Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>]

Wolfgang Goetz wrote on Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:03 AM:
> perl-Tk is broken in 1.5 and 1.7
> 
> Check by running the "Perl/Tk Widget Demonstrations":
> 
> $ widget
> Use of uninitialized value $id in hash element at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39. ...
> Use of uninitialized value $id in delete at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87. 
> Can't set -labelFont to `Courier 12 bold' for
Tk::LabEntry=HASH(0x1056ee48):
> unknown option "-labelFont" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/Derived.pm line 294.  
> 
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/Derived.pm line 306
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> but is working under debugger control:
> $ ddd /usr/bin/widget (->Run ->Cont)

I've had similar problems; see
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00800.html but no resolution.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Linux perl 5.10 installation available to
confirm that this is specific to Cygwin.

I did try to build perl-Tk from the package source, but that produces a
different error:

no event type or button # or keysym at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/Widget.pm line 1105.

-- 
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com

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