I wish I had wish

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:21:02 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> Excerpt from pkg info:
> 
> 
> tcl-wrapper-1.1_3              Shell wrapper for tclsh (Tcl)
> tcl85-8.5.19_3                 Tool Command Language
> tcl86-8.6.10                   Tool Command Language
> tcl87-8.7.a3_1                 Tool Command Language
> tclX-8.4.1                     Extended TCL
> 
> tk86-8.6.10_1                  Graphical toolkit for Tcl

That looks correct.

	$ pkg list tk86-8.6.10_1 | grep "wish"
	/usr/local/bin/wish8.6
	/usr/local/man/man1/wish.tk86.1.gz

Interestingly, it's not "man wish", it's "man wish.tk86".
But when you read "SCRIPT FILES", you'll see that it refers
to /usr/local/bin/wish, which the package does not install
as such... :-)



> > Am 22.08.2020 um 08:02 schrieb Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>:
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:22:51 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >> Thanks. I installed bsvc from github, compiled and installed it.
> >> When I then ran
> >> 
> >> bsvc
> >> 
> >> I got exec: wish not found
> >> 
> >> Now I found that bsvc is part of the ports collection. So I did a
> >> pkg install bsvc which automatically install tcl/tk (8.6 I believe).
> >> 
> >> So far so good. wish isn’t there.
> >> 
> >> Now when I start bsvc (via ssh -Y myfreebsdbox) I’m getting
> >> 
> >> $ bsvc
> >> X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
> >>  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
> >>  Serial number of failed request:  42
> >>  Current serial number in output stream:  59
> >> $ 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> But this message must be caused by my macOS server from which I’m
> >> logged in into myfreebsdbox.
> > 
> > Depending on which shell you're using, try command completition:
> > 
> > 	% wish[TAB]
> > 
> 
> $ 
> $ which wish
> $ 

Same here:

	$ which wish
	$ _

Nothin there.

	$ wish<TAB>
	$ wish8.6_

The shell completed the command.

	$ which wish8.6 
	/usr/local/bin/wish8.6
	$ _

The actual binary is versioned.



> Thanks. wish8.6 is indeed there.
> I could create a link to wish.

I find it strange that such a symlink isn't there from the
start, but it's probably _not_ there so you can use different
versions of wish (here: different versions of Tk installed),
or you're forced (by design) to specify the wish version your
program needs in the #! line.




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Polytropon
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