VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 17:54:18 CST

Hi,
  The dependency for VMD 1.9.1 should indeed be Tcl/Tk 8.5.x, so
please feed that back to the Gentoo folks.

I should have 8.6.x sorted out so we're good with the VMD 1.9.2 release,
so it should be okay to point at Tcl/Tk 8.6.0 when we release it.

The Gentoo guys may have tested against a beta version of Tcl/Tk 8.6.
Some things changed in the final official 8.6.0 release since the last
beta I had tested, and so although I have been using betas for 8.6 for
some time, VMD 1.9.1 predates the final 8.6.0 release and therefore
there were a few loose ends I already had to fix in 1.9.2 in addition
to the one you pointed out.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:32:20PM -0600, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
> Hi John,
> I built this using the main gentoo repository. I originally filed a bug on
> bugs.gentoo.org (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451824), but they
> said the readme stated VMD had been upgraded to tcl/tk 8.6 and asked me to
> file the bug upstream. I gather I should respond to them and ask if they
> would change the dependencies back to tcl/tk 8.5.x, yes?
> Thanks,
> Benj
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I haven't yet validated VMD against the latest Tcl/Tk 8.6.0 release
> that just came out. I started compiling it recently out of necessity
> to get around a segfault problem in Tcl 8.5.x when running on ARM chips,
> but I haven't exercised the Tk scripts yet. In updating VMD to compile
> against Tcl 8.6, I had to make a couple of changes to the webpdb plugin,
> so I was curious how you'd gotten around that when you did your test
> build
> of VMD 1.9.1, since it didn't have this fix. Anyway, I expect to try
> the developmental versions of VMD 1.9.2 against Tcl/Tk 8.6.0 shortly as
> my tests on the ARM platform continue.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:47:11PM -0600, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have installed vmd-1.9.1-r2 on gentoo with tcl/tk-8.6. Everything
> seems
> > to work fine except for a couple of the analysis modules. The
> radial pair
> > distribution function and IR spectral denisty calculators show an
> empty
> > window, but all of the others look correct. Is there a trick to
> installing
> > vmd with the latest tcl/tk?
> > Thanks,
> > Benj
>
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