[bug-sourceinstall] Re: please help on sourceinstall invoke

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello,

--- "Zhou Peiqing ( Isabel )" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I was trying to invoke sourceinstall with or
> without parameter specified, I
> always get following  errors.
> 
> ***********************************
> bad option "normalize": should be atime, copy,
> delete, dirname, executable,
> exists, extension, isdirectory, isfile, join, lstat,
> mtime, mkdir, owned,
> pathtype, readable, readlink, rename, root, size,
> split, stat, tail, type, or
> writable
>     while executing
> "file normalize $argv0"
>     invoked from within
> "file dirname [file normalize $argv0]..."
>     invoked from within
> "file dirname [file dirname [file normalize
> $argv0]]..."
>     invoked from within
> "set prefix [file dirname [file dirname [file
> normalize $argv0]]]..."
>     (file "/home/izhou/bin/sourceinstall" line 94)

It seems that your tcl interpreter is too old.
Version 0.3 of the Source Installer includes handy
version checks. This means that you can now run for
example

$ ./configure | more

and you will find your tools versions among the
checks.

> ************************************************
> 
> If I add # ahead of line 94,  following error
> occured.
> **********************************************
> can't find package Tk
>     while executing
> "package require Tk"
>     (file "/home/izhou/bin/sourceinstall" line 3032)
> *******************************************

Seems you miss the tcl Tk package too.

> If I continue #, init_fonts, init_widget_default,
> init_wm will run into problem
> step by step.
> 
> I didn't see any errors in the setup procedure, but
> I made some modification on
> the procedure based on the instruction.
> 
> 1. ./configure --exec-prefix=/home/usr
> --infodir=/home/usr --mandir=/home/usr to
> fit my working environment.

You can achieve the same thing by just saying:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/usr

See ./configure --help output for more information

> 2. I run both make and make install under
> /home/usr/download/sourceinstall-0.2.
> 
> Could you please take a time to look into the
> problem? If more detailed
> infomation need, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks.
> Isabel

I suggest you to fetch the new 0.3 release, then run

./configure --prefix=/home/usr

and see which packages are missing, and install them.
If you need/want to install them from source here they
are:

Tcl and Tk : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl
Expect : http://expect.nist.gov/#unix

Do ask again if you still have troubles getting
sourceinstall to work or if you have trouble setting
up your tcl interpreter, but please provide your full
OS name (try 'uname -a') and package versions.

Claudio




                
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