Re: Using system tcl/tk version 8.5

[Gene Smith <gds at chartertn dot net>]

Gene Smith wrote, On 04/09/2010 04:33 PM:
> Tried again on 32-bit f8 using system tcl/tk (had to install tcl,
> tcl-dev, tk, tk-dev, itcl, itcl-dev, itk, itk-dev and iwidgets packages
> from old f8 repo). Even configured with --with-itcl=/usr/lib it
> complained that it needed env vars ITCL_LIBRARY and ITK_LIBRARY pointing
> to the respective libraries. Expected to find itcll3.3/ and itk3.3/ in
> /usr/share/ so made symlink to them rather than define them (yum put
> them in /usr/lib like everything else tcl/tk related).
>
> Once this was resolved still would not step properly in arm code.
> Changed loading my elf file with "symbol-file" to "file" command in
> gdbinit fixed it. So now running "7.1.50.20100407-cvs" OK. This would
> probably also fix case above using insight's own tcl/tk (haven't tried it).

One other benefit to this cvs HEAD version vs. the official released 
6.8.x is that I can
inspect doubles. Before the values were decoded and displayed wrong. 
(Haven't tried for a while to build a 64-bit, mingw32 or cygwin versions 
however.)