Getting "tcl wasn't compiled with threads enabled" error

[Bernard Desgraupes]

OK, I've solved my problem: I edited the Portfile and added manually 
--enable-threads to the [configure.args] proc arguments and rebuilt tcl 
from scratch. Then I fiddled with sym links to make sure that the tclsh 
in /usr/bin points to /opt/local/bin/tclsh and similarly with the 
tclConfig.sh file.

After that, the selfupdate configuration went fine.

I'm still wondering why the --enable-threads configure argument is not 
present by default (or at least via a variant) if it is needed by 
something as basic as "port selfupdate".
I'm probably missing something.

Any insight is very welcome.

Bernard


PS  It would be nice if there were a Tcl folder in 
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports (just 
like Python, Ruby, etc) in order to add Portfiles for various Tcl 
compiled extensions. I suppose I'd have to make a feature request for 
this somewhere.



I wrote:

> I'm having a problem trying to selfupdate MacPorts on my machine: the 
> configure script stops on the following
>
>
> checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh
> checking for existence of /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh... loading
> checking for Tcl public headers... /usr/local/include
> checking for tclsh... /usr/bin/tclsh
> checking for Tcl package directory... /Library/Tcl
> checking whether tclsh was compiled with threads... no
> configure: error: tcl wasn't compiled with threads enabled
>
>
> I currently have MacPorts 1.5.0 installed from the .dmg archive.
>
> My version of tclsh was 8.4.10 in /usr/bin and probably indeed it was 
> not compiled with threads.
>
> So I installed the MacPorts version of Tcl (sudo port install tcl) 
> thinking that this one would be compiled with threads enabled. This 
> installed version 8.4.15 in /opt/local/bin.
>
> Then trying again to "port -selfupdate"
>
> Same error and still the configure script finds tclsh in /usr/bin
> checking for tclsh... /usr/bin/tclsh
>
> So I changed the /usr/bin/tclsh symlink so that it points to the newly 
> compiled tclsh:
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  20 Sep  1 14:12 /usr/bin/tclsh -> 
> /opt/local/bin/tclsh
>
>
> Still I get the same error from the MacPorts configure script.
>
> How can I get out of this ?
> How do I do to have tclsh compiled with threads enabled? Apparently 
> even with the MacPorts version it is not. I found the following line 
> in /opt/local/lib/tclConfig.sh:
>    # Flag, 1: we built Tcl with threads enables, 0 we didn't
>    TCL_THREADS=0
>
> And why is the MacPorts configure script looking for the wrong Tcl. It 
> is loading /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>
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