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A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5


The invalid path in question: //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl. This is the path as supplied by tcl. To make it work, insert a / after the colon: //?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl.

Here's a Cygwin session that demonstrates this. I'm trying to build brltty, a program which is part of Cygwin but I'm building from the tarball. The path as supplied by tcl is invalid on 1.7. Since it worked on 1.5 it was presumably valid over there:

$ ./autogen
application-specific initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
//?/e:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 //?/e:cygwin/share/tcl8.4 //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4 //?/e:share/tcl8.4 //?/e:cygwin/library //?/e
:library //?/e:../tcl8.4.1/library




This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

$ ls //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl
/bin/ls: cannot access //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl: No such file or directory
$ ls //?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl
//?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl


Note: I've checked with the brltty people and they assure me brltty isn't involved in any way.

HTH,

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Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA




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