tclsh/tclreadline question

[joerg van den hoff]

On 20.01.20 13:03 , O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
 >
 >
 >> On 20 Jan 2020, at 22:28, joerg van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> I am running osx 10.15 and have installed tcl 8.6.10 plus tclreadline 2.3.5 with current macports.
 >>
 >> this works flawlessly, in fact. I am nevertheless asking here since when self-compiling the 
exact same tclsh 8.6.10 and trying to use the macports-installed tclreadline together with it, the 
latter
 >> memory faults in file
 >>
 >> /opt/local/lib/tclreadline2.3.5/tclreadlineInit.tcl in
 >>
 >> line 27 `tclreadline::Init'.
 >
 > What does line 27 look like?
that was the line:

tclreadline::Init

 > (or maybe just send the whole file)
 >
 >> this clearly is not macports problem (since macports-tcl + macports-tclreadline works fine), but 
I have so far unsuccessfully tried to find out what causes the problem with the self-compiled tclsh 
(I want to test some recent changes to tcl and do want to utilize macports-installed stuff like 
tclreadline and tcllib etc. in the process).
 >>
 >> so I would appreciate any hints from the package maintainers of tcl and tclreadline what I am 
doing wrong here?
 >
 > Seems pretty weird, it's not like tclreadline has had many changes or anything..
it is maybe not tclreadline's own fault, but I am not sure. I also asked at Tcl lang, but no clear 
solution so far:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/jCVQ8dTWyxI

I presume somehow there must be a difference between the self-compiled tclsh 8.6.10 and the one 
installed by macports and tclreadline does not hook into both in the same way. but I do not 
understand what the difference might be...

I so far would not have expected that I can use the package only with a single unique instance of 
tclsh...

 >
 > --
 > Daniel O'Connor
 > "The nice thing about standards is that there
 > are so many of them to choose from."
 >   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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