[brlcad-tracker] [ brlcad-Bugs-3523256 ] archer throws exception when launched

Bugs item #3523256, was opened at 2012-05-03 07:58
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Category: Geometry Editing
Group: other bug / workaround
>Status: Pending
Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Fred (breakfastfish)
Assigned to: Sean Morrison (brlcad)
Summary: archer throws exception when launched

Initial Comment:
Archer throws this exception when launched:

fred@mistopheles:~> archer
unknown option "-imagepixmapify"

BRL-Cad version is 7.20.6 compiled from source using brlcad.SlackBuild from slackbuilds.org.  Slackware linux version is 13.37 with kernel 3.2.13 built from Slackware-current kernel config.  BRL-Cad configure options are:

./configure --prefix=/opt/brlcad --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/opt/brlcad/man --with-ogl --with-tcl=/usr/lib --with-tk=/usr/lib --disable-tcl-build --disable-tk-build --disable-jove-build --disable-strict-build --enable-optimized --build=i486-slackware-linux

Cheers,

Fred

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>Comment By: Cliff Yapp (starseeker)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:53

Message:
Yeah, that's probably too old - you can either enable it with BRLCAD_TKHTML
in the GUI or by setting it via the command line:

cmake ../brlcad -DBRLCAD_TKHTML=BUNDLED

At the moment, our Tcl/Tk package detection isn't sophisticated enough to
check for a minimum version of a package - it just sees whether package
require succeeds.  If our local copy works, that probably means it's time
to add minimum version verification to the testing...

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Comment By: Fred (breakfastfish)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:51

Message:
I installed tkhtml on my system when my build of brlcad failed because the
configure script couldn't find it.  I'll try using the one packaged with
the brlcad source.  I may also have had to install tkhtml for another
package that I use.  I should check that.  The installed version that I
have of tkhtml3 is alpha-16.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,

Fred

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Comment By: Cliff Yapp (starseeker)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:44

Message:
I think brlcad has the right question - does the build script claim to be
detecting a system Tkhtml?  (Or, even if the local copy is being built, is
there a system version that might conflict?)  I've never run into a system
that had tkhtml pre-installed before, but if yours does it's highly
probable that the system version is too old to support our code - our local
tkhtml is the last development state of the original tkhtml project plus
some minor fixes, so it's not likely a compatible version ever got put out
as a package on any OS.

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Comment By: Sean Morrison (brlcad)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:27

Message:
Do you know if you have tkhtml installed somewhere else on your system?
It'd possibly be in some tcl script directory somewhere or a lib sub folder
perhaps.

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Comment By: Fred (breakfastfish)
Date: 2012-05-10 15:46

Message:
Hello again,

I tried the cmake build with the same results.  This time cmake used my
installed itcl,+itk and iwidgets (3.4 and 4.0.2 respectively) installation.
 Mged works fine as far as I can tell.  It  had some quirks before but they
are missing now.

Cheers,

Fred

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Comment By: Sean Morrison (brlcad)
Date: 2012-05-10 11:56

Message:
It's not clear what's going wrong there, but it looks related to our usage
of tkhtml in archer.  The first thing I would suggest is to try our newer
cmake build system instead of our legacy autotools build system.  If you
can reproduce the problem with cmake, that will be something worth
investigating further in our latest sources.

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