Re: tcl/tk error in RedHat 7.3

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Paul,

        many thanks for your help. I hope we'll fix a problem also for 
other peoples ...

        Below you can find my replies.

        Pietro

At 14.01 30/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Dear Pietro
>
>
> I have the same tcl/tk that you  do, the ones from the standard RH 7.3 
> distribution.

        Yes.



> So let me see if I understand your situation correctly.
>
> You have started with a "clean" RH 7.3 system, and then installed from my 
> rpms:
>
> 1. gcc3-3.0.4
> 2. hdf5
> 3. Swarm

        Yes.


> And you are able to run Objective-C, but when you get the SUn self 
> extracting binary package (not the rpm one) install the Sun JDK in 
> /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0, then you cannot "make" or run things like jheatbugs?

        Yes!

> Can I see the output of what happens if you cd into the heatbugs dir and do:
>
>
> $ export SWARMHOME=/usr
> $ make
> $ javaswarm StartHeatbugs

address@hidden jheatbugs-2001-03-28]$ export SWARMHOME=/usr

address@hidden jheatbugs-2001-03-28]$ make
/usr/bin/javacswarm Heatbug.java HeatCell.java HeatSpace.java 
HeatbugModelSwarm.java  HeatbugObserverSwarm.java StartHeatbugs.java 
HeatbugBatchSwarm.java
/usr/bin/javacswarm: jikes: command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127

but bypassing jikes (I need to use jdk for my application) it's ok
address@hidden jheatbugs-2001-03-28]$ javac *java

address@hidden jheatbugs-2001-03-28]$ javaswarm StartHeatbugs
(Tcl -eval:) syntax error in expression " $tcl_version >= 8.0 "
    while executing
"if { $tcl_version >= 8.0 } {

followed by a lot or tcl error lines


> Also, it might help to see the output of
>
> $ eval javaswarm

address@hidden jheatbugs-2001-03-28]$ eval javaswarm
_JAVASWARM_LIBPATH="/usr/lib/swarm::/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=":/usr/lib:/usr/lib/swarm:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/swarm"
CLASSPATH=".:/usr/share/swarm/swarm.jar:/usr/share/swarm/kawa.jar:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar:.:/usr/share/swarm/swarm.jar:/usr/share/swarm/kawa.jar"
export _JAVASWARM_LIBPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH



> My output is like this:
>
> _JAVASWARM_LIBPATH="/usr/lib/swarm::/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/"
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=":/usr/lib:/usr/lib/swarm:/usr/X11R6/lib:"
> CLASSPATH=".:/usr/share/swarm/swarm.jar:/usr/share/swarm/kawa.jar:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar:"
> export _JAVASWARM_LIBPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH
>
> Pietro Terna wrote:
> >         Dear Paul,
> >         in the last few day I made a lot of attempts to solve the 
> > problem below, both following your suggestions and in other directions, 
> > without success.
> >         A check about tcl/tk version: in my RedHat 7.3 box I've tcl and 
> > tk 8.3.3-67
> >         What version do you have in yours Linux box?
> >         Yours, Pietro
> > At 16.37 21/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > > I talked to a couple of people last month with the same problem.
> > > RedHat does something bad to the java files when they repackage them, 
> > > and we never found a way around it.
> > >
> > > Don't use the java RPMs.
> > >
> > > Get the Sun tarball, put it in /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0. If it untars to 
> > > /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_01 either rename the directory or sym link it.
> > >
> > > It will work.
> > >
> > > The alternative is to take the Swarm SRPM file I have, edit the SPEC 
> > > file to tell it where the java home is, and rebuild the rpm.
> > >
> > > pj
> > >
> > > Pietro Terna wrote:
> > >
> > > >         Hi Paul,
> > > >         Sun rpms have installed java in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01
> > > >         (I've set JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01).
> > > >         Now I've moved j2sdk1.4.0_01 contents to /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0 
> > > > also modifying JAVA_HOME, but the error is the same.
> > > >         ('javac *java' works fine).
> > > >         What I remember about this kind of problem is a message of 
> > > > yours, about the necessity of recompiling something ...
> > > >         Pietro
> > > > At 09.32 21/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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