fix blt 2.4z build

[howarth@…]

The attached packaging allows blt to be built under the current MacPorts 1.8.1 packages on Snow Leopard. It uses the Fedora Core 12 patches...

1) blt-2.4z-tcl8.5-fix.patch to eliminate duplicate declarations. 2) blt2.4z-noexactversion.patch to eliminate a problem with later tcl/tk 8.5.x versions. 3) blt-x86_64.patch to fix the 64-bit build.

This builds fine under current MacPorts 1.8.1 and works great with pymol and its APBS tool panel.

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diff against current blt Portfile

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blt-2.4z-tcl8.5-fix.patch

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blt-x86_64.patch

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blt2.4z-noexactversion.patch

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Note that none of the current Linux distros has a blt that works perfectly. In fact the complete set of Gentoo patches for blt (including their forked tarball) badly breaks pymol's apbs tool suppprt. For a perfect blt under tcl 8.5, we will have to wait for blt 3.0 which is under heavy development in its cvs.

[leminhhieu@…]

SOS, tell me exactly what I should do to fix the errors

I am not a programmer but have to work on OMNeT in MAC 10.6, that requires tcl/tk (already installed) + blt.

Here what I did:

1. Install Macport.
2. try to install blt: sudo port install blt
3. the system install the related stuff (including tcl and tk).
4. Lastly, at the moment "building blt", the screen shows errors: conflict with TCL and TK .

Please help me !

I don't know what I have to do with the patch files here.

Million thanks in advance

[howarth@…]

To use the packaging in this ticket...

1) mkdir -p ~/ports/X11/blt/files 2) cp Portfile ~/ports/X11/blt 3) cp *.patch ~/ports/X11/blt/files 4) cd ~/ports 5) portindex 6) sudo port -d install blt

[macsforever2000@…]

Maintainer timeout.

[macsforever2000@…]

Added in r61341. Thanks!