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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

Tcl/Tk hell -- 'invalid command name "mc"'

I've installed git to my ~.  For some reason I've got a bunch of Tcl/Tk errors when I try to run programs that depend on the Tcl/Tk binaries:

% ./git-gui                                                                                                                                     ~/src/git-gui
zsh: no such file or directory: ./git-gui
[127] master
% ./git-gui.sh                                                                                                                                  ~/src/git-gui
Error in startup script: invalid command name "mc"
    while executing
"mc "git-gui: fatal error""
    invoked from within
"if {[catch {package require Tcl 8.4} err]
 || [catch {package require Tk  8.4} err]
} {
        catch {wm withdraw .}
        tk_messageBox \
                -icon error \
                -typ..."
    (file "./git-gui.sh" line 34)
[1] master
% gitk                                                                                                                                          ~/src/git-gui
Error in startup script: invalid command name "mc"
    while executing
"mc "Sorry, gitk cannot run with this version of Tcl/Tk.\n Gitk requires at least Tcl/Tk 8.4.""
    invoked from within
"if {[catch {package require Tk 8.4} err]} {
    show_error {} . [mc "Sorry, gitk cannot run with this version of Tcl/Tk.\n\
                     Gitk requires at le..."
    (file "/home/print/bin/gitk" line 9721)
[1] master
%                                                                                                                                               ~/src/git-gui

I have Tcl installed:

[1] master
% tclsh<TAB>                                                                                                                                         ~/src/git-gui
tclsh     tclsh8.3  tclsh8.5

It looks like Tcl is finding the tclsh8.3, even though that executable comes after the tclsh8.4 in my $PATH.  I'm completely clueless of Tcl/Tk, so any hints on how to get this going much appreciated.

Thanks,
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Last edited by print (2009-01-04 01:21:42)

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wottam

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From: Spain

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 59

Re: Tcl/Tk hell -- 'invalid command name "mc"'

Hi,

tclsh is a link to tclsh8.3, probably. To find out, type in the terminal

ls -l `which tclsh`

Chances are that you won't get

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 oct 16 10:45 /usr/bin/tclsh -> tclsh8.5

as I do To fix it, just delete the link as root and create a new one pointing to tclsh8.5

Cheers