Re: [RFA] Find init.tcl on cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:07:20AM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> 2002-12-19  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
>> 
>> 	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath): Default to correct location
>> 	for installLib on cygwin.
>
>You know, normally I would just say, "yes", but this seems like a good 
>time to start a little discussion on this. 
>
>I think I know why you want to move it to /usr/share from /usr/lib 
>(because it's the "right" place to put these files), but this would be 
>different from how net tcl/tk work, which I thought was the whole point to 
>trying to import 8.3.

I wasn't trying to move it from /usr/lib to /usr/share.  I was trying to
make it find the files that were installed in /usr/share.  The change
from lib to share is not something that I did.  That seems to be part of
tcl 8.3.

If someone wants to inform me of a better way to do this then I'm open
for suggestions.  In the meantime, I'm carrying this change as a local
modification when I release new versions of insight for windows.

I'm trying to avoid this:

Tcl_Init failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
    {} f:/cygwin/share/tcl8.3 f:/cygwin/share/tcl8.3 f:/share/tcl8.3 f:/share/tcl8.3/library f:/library f:/../tcl8.3/library ../tcl8.3/library

This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

>So, do we care at all about not doing things too differently from the net 
>release (in the futile hopes to someday just require people to use the net 
>release) or do we even bother?

Until the net release understands cygwin, I think we'll always need a few
tweaks.

cgf