tcl catch syntax

[Darren Weber]

AAAAAAaaaarggggggg, NO readline support in apple tclsh8.4 :-(

Is there any easy way to get it?  Maybe a module include or something?

Thanks, again,
Darren



On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Darren Weber <dweber at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org>wrote:
>
>> On 2009-05-19 00:48, Darren Weber wrote:
>> > DEBUG: Executing proc-post-org.macports.destroot-destroot-2
>> > Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: wrong # args: should be
>> > "catch command ?varName?"
>> > Warning: the following items did not execute (for InsightToolkit):
>> > org.macports.destroot
>> > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>> >
>> >
>> > Here in the tcl 8.5 documentation, we have a different syntax that
>> > allows the "option" variable:
>> > http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/catch.htm
>>
>> MacPorts uses Tcl 8.4 as provided by Mac OS X. You are probably reading
>> 8.5 documentation which has been installed by the MacPorts tcl port.
>>
>> You can use man to view the man page supplied by the system by using the
>> full path:
>>  man /usr/share/man/mann/catch.ntcl.gz
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>
>
> Yes, I've been "debugging" using the 'tclsh' symlink to tclsh8.5 provided
> by macports (/opt/local/bin/tclsh8.5) and reading the 8.5 documentation at
> http://www.tcl.tk/doc/
>
> I'll switch over to tclsh8.4 and see if that helps.
>
> Thanks!
> Darren
>
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