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Re: Snit package in TCL/TK libraries
- From: "David Barr" <david20708 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:46:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Snit package in TCL/TK libraries
- References: <470B2984.70109@ieee.org>
- Reply-to: davidbarr at iname dot com
On 10/9/07, Jason Pearce wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Perl's Tcl-Tk-0.97 package off CPAN
> (http://search.cpan.org/~vkon/Tcl-Tk-0.97/).
> The Makefile.PL does a test for something called snit in the TCL libraires.
> => it runs tclsh with a small script which does "package require snit".
> This fails.
Sometimes build scripts test for packages that aren't mandatory. Are
you sure that this is what is causing the build to fail?
> I am not a regular TCL/TK user so I don't really know what snit is.
> Apparently its part of the standard Tcl library (according to
> http://www.tcl.tk/starkits/ and searching for snit).
It's misleading to call Tcllib the standard TCL library. Tcllib is
not included with TCL. It must be downloaded and installed
separately.
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