X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17cf793e0710090746m460da394ne9c27ce68daa50af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:46:16 -0400 From: "David Barr" Reply-To: davidbarr@iname.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Snit package in TCL/TK libraries In-Reply-To: <470B2984.70109@ieee.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <470B2984.70109@ieee.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/