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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 15:13:10 CST

Hi,
  By the way, I have just committed changes to the current VMD CVS to
cure (needs more testing to be sure) the problems that the irspecgui
and gofrgui plugins were having with Tk 8.6.0. I've emailed Axel to
let him know I made these changes, and hopefully we'll have them fully
tested shortly. For now, the updated versions will be showing up in the
next test builds I make and they will be in the VMD CVS for anyone that
wants to try them out.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:12:10AM -0600, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
> Thank you so much John. I let the gentoo devs know they should revert back
> to tcl/tk 8.5.x.
> Take care,
> Benj
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:54 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078 

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/       Fax: 217-244-6078