Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

[Jeremy Bopp]

On 02/24/2012 08:25 AM, Fergus wrote:
> Previously bin/wish was a link to wish84.exe (from memory). Recently it
> was upgraded to wish 8.5.exe.
> Now, unless X is also running, wish fails with
> 
> $ wish
> % Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
> environment variable
> 
> I'm not quite certain which recently upgraded package led to this:
> tcl-tk or tcltk or ...
> Have I identified a real glitch and if so can this problem be addressed?

The tcltk libraries now require a running X server in order to display
graphics.  This is recent and more importantly intentional according to
what I've read on this list, so there is nothing to address. :-)

-Jeremy

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