From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:31:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:31:23 -0400 Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.47]:15496 "EHLO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:31:13 -0400 From: Simon Geard Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:32:12 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problem with make xconfig and tcl/tk 8.3 (and fix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051701321300.01308@Granville> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have tcl/tk8.3.2 installed and make xconfig (for both 2.2.18 and 2.4.2) just hang. I've been told by the listed maintainer that a new GUI is on its way and the existing make xconfig is orphaned, but this does not solve the immediate problem. I have therefore fixed this problem myself and have patches for header.tk and tail.tk if anyone is interested. Essentially the fix is to replace all the 'exec ...' commands with native Tcl ones. I have also enhanced the help system so that the help is cached internally on startup and its existence is used to control the state of the help button, this makes getting help much faster and more reliable (RTFM messages are no longer needed). The help itself now has a blue title that points back to the originating entry. I'm happy to provide these if anyone is interested, I have tested them with tcl/tk8.2.0 as well and as far as I can see they work fine. The sizes are wc -l *patch* 322 header.tk.patch 39 tail.tk.patch-2.2.18 61 tail.tk.patch-2.4.2 I'm not subscribed to the list so please cc replies to me if you wish. Thanks, Simon Geard.