Re: [ECOS] Error in building heaps.cxx

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:09:09PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>sll@libero.it wrote:
>>XPWD=`pwd` ; cd 
>>/ecos-c/cygwin/ecos_sources/ecos/packages/services/memalloc/common/current/src ; sh heapgen.tcl "/ecos-c/DOCUME~1/landis/Desktop/eCos/testvmware_install" "$XPWD"
>>couldn't read file 
>>"/ecos-c/DOCUME~1/landis/Desktop/eCos/testvmware_build/services/memalloc/common/current/heapgeninc.tcl": no such file or directory
>>    while executing
>>"source [ file join $builddir heapgeninc.tcl ]"
>>    (file "heapgen.tcl" line 
>>90)
>>make[1]: Leaving directory 
>>`/ecos-c/DOCUME~1/landis/Desktop/eCos/testvmware_build/services/memalloc/common/current'
>>make[1]: *** [heaps.cxx] Error 1
>>make: Leaving directory 
>>`/ecos-c/DOCUME~1/landis/Desktop/eCos/testvmware_build'
>>make: *** [build] Error 2
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Please note that heapgeninc.tcl exists in specified location, so why i get 
>>the "no such file or directory" message?
>
>I suspect this is yet another incompatibility with the latest TCL
>(8.4)that the cygwin group released recently.  It appears not to
>understand cygwin paths any more which makes it pretty useless as a
>cygwin package.  We're working on a workaround.  In the meantime
>assuming you do indeed have TCL 8.4, try downgrading to 8.3.  Run
>cygwin's setup.exe again and toggle the selected package version for
>the TCL package to try and get an earlier version.

You realize that this is all open source right?

I'm sure that a fix submitted to the insight mailing list would be well
received.

A fix seems like a much better alternative to a workaround to me.

cgf

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