Re: Upating Tcl/Tk installation breaks Tkx?

[email protected] (Jeff Hobbs) Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:01:29 -0700

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Kevin Walzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have recently done a minor version rev of my Tk installation (from 8.5.12
> to 8.5.13) and now I can't run my Perl Tkx script. It fails with this error
> message:
>
> Kevin-Walzers-MacBook-5:stringdrill-2 kevin$  macperl stringdrill.pl
> attempt to provide package Tk 8.5.12 failed: package Tk 8.5.13 provided
> instead at stringdrill.pl line 3.
>
> How can I solve this problem? It doesn't appear that rebuilding/reinstalling
> Tkx is necessary as cpan tells me my installation is up-to-date. Is there a
> way to specify the required version of Tk in my Perl script?

Can you force a rebuild anyway?  I wonder if something in the Tcl.xs
underlying library has the 8.5.12 embedded that is causing the
conflict.

Jeff