Re: [Help-smalltalk] Trying to run browser...

[Brian Brown]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > > I have built gst on MacOSX as well, and the browser exhibited the  
> > > same
> > > behaviour.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> Hello.  Sorry for chiming in late, I was off-site before and on  
> holiday afterwards.

Not a problem ;)  - I was on holiday myself two weeks ago.


> Can you please give the location of libtcl*.so* and/or libtk*.so*  
> on disk?

They are in /usr/lib:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M 2006-01-05 10:53 /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   14 2006-07-26 10:21 /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so ->  
libtcl8.4.so.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689K 2006-01-05 10:53 /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K 2006-01-05 10:53 /usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M 2006-01-05 10:46 /usr/lib/libtk8.4.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 2006-07-26 10:21 /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so ->  
libtk8.4.so.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 853K 2006-01-05 10:46 /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.7K 2006-01-05 10:46 /usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a



> Also, I am not familiar with Ubuntu.  If they build from source, do  
> you have a log?  In this case, also, you may want to check if you  
> have a tclConfig.sh or tkConfig.sh file.  If they install a binary,  
> chances are that they do not provide the browser in their package.

(09:17) ~> locate  
tclConfig                                                                
                                                             (Thu 3) ~
/usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh

(09:17) ~> locate  
tkConfig                                                                 
                                                             (Thu 3) ~
/usr/lib/tk8.4/tkConfig.sh


> Regarding Mac OS X, I've always built the browser with fink's Tcl  
> and Tk packages.  That may explain your previous failures.

I've started using DarwinPorts, and I'll double check what is installed.


> Paolo

Thanks!

Brian