[ECOS] Beginners' problem: pkgconf.tcl

Bart Veer bartv@cygnus.co.uk
Mon May 17 03:01:00 GMT 1999


>>>>> "John" == John Mills <jmmills@avana.net> writes:

    John>   As an ordinary user I now created a working directory in (say):
    John> ~/cygnus/ecos-work and changed to that directory. Now when I try:

    John>   % tclsh /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl --help
    John> I get the expected help message, but trying (say):
    John>   % tclsh /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl --targets
    John> gets:
    John>  "pkgconf fatal error: Unexpected error while processing
    John>   /usr/local/ecos-1.1/packages/packages
    John>   can't set "pkgconf::package_data": parent namespace doesn't exist"

    John> Could someone please set me straight on running the
    John> configuration utility and building the basic tests from the
    John> distribution? Setup and usage suggestions are also welcome.

This is a problem with some versions of tclsh (release 8.0 patchlevel
0, I believe). If you run the version of tclsh that is built as part
of the toolchain, or any later version of Tcl, then everything should
work as per the documentation.

Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer


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