David Ronis writes:
>David Ronis writes:
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>>Something broke xmaxima in the last few CVS's. When I run, it now says:
>>
>>xmaxima
>>Error in startup script: invalid command name "mcload"
>> while executing
>>"mcload [file join $maxima_priv(maxima_verpkgdatadir) msgs]"
>> (procedure "setMaxDir" line 112)
>> invoked from within
>>"setMaxDir"
>> (procedure "MAXTkmaxima:install" line 9)
>> invoked from within
>>"MAXTkmaxima:install tkmaxima"
>> ("uplevel" body line 1)
>> invoked from within
>>"uplevel [concat $object(__class__):$method tkmaxima $args]"
>> (procedure "tkmaxima" line 3)
>> invoked from within
>>"tkmaxima install"
>> (file "/usr/local/bin/xmaxima" line 15080)
>>
>>David
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>>
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> Vadim> What version on tcl is installed on your system?
> Vadim> Does it have msgcat module (msgcat.tcl somewhere in
> Vadim> /usr/share/tcl...)?
> Vadim> It seems that you have ether too old tcl (at least 8.2 is required)
> Vadim> or tcl without msgcat (strange, since this is standard module).
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>Ronis> I had three versions of tcl on my system: 8.3 and 8.4 in
>Ronis> /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share/tcl8.[03], and in 8.4 in /usr/lib.
>Ronis> Interestingly there is no /usr/share/tcl8.4. I'd built the ones in
>Ronis> the local tree over the years and the one in /usr/lib came with
>Ronis> slackware-10.0.
>Ronis>
>Ronis> I've removed all but the one in /usr/lib and rebuilt maxima from scratch;
>Ronis> I get the same error. I looked for msgcat and found it in
>Ronis> /usr/lib/tcl8.4/msgcat1.3, specifically:
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>Ronis>ls -l /usr/lib/tcl8.4/msgcat1.3
>Ronis>
>Ronis>total 20
>Ronis>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12816 May 11 02:37 msgcat.tcl
>Ronis>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 May 11 02:37 pkgIndex.tcl
>Ronis>
>Ronis>Perhaps xmaxima is looking for msgcat in the wrong place?
>Ronis>This worked last week.
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>Ok it turns out it was my fault--simply conflicts between the new and
>legacy versions of my tcl/tk installation--once I got rid of all the
>old versions (including wish), it works.
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>Thanks for the help.
>
>David
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Good to hear! I was suspicious about some kind of conflict
as soon as you mentioned two tcl versions in your system.
--
Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy@mail.ru>
<vvzhy@netorn.ru>