Forum OpenACS Q&A: getting old versions of openacs working, versus getting the latest version working

Now, I have encountered a new problem, which is that I get an error when having openacs core load its initial data model, that I believe can be summarized as:

invalid command name "::try"
    while executing
"::try {
        set package_uri $version(package.url)
        set package_type $version(package.type)
        set package_name $version(package-name)
..."

and, I also have the complete build log, which is here: http://termbin.com/w5c0

Please take a look, and thanks in advance.

-Jim

Thanks for your reply... After making that log of the attempted install, I went ahead and grabbed xotcl-1.6.8, installed that, and ran the install again (i.e., drop the db, create a new blank db, then run the web server) and got very similar results. Rather than detailing that, I'll get the new tcl-8.6 and the new tcllib, and rebuild the whole stack.

I'll post here whether I succeed or fail.

-Jim

I'm trying to build a thread module for tcl, but I can't configure it, because it needs tclconfigure, which I try to get, but the server keeps throwing an error... well, take a look at this:

build@jlynch:/usr/src/openacs-stack$ fossil clone https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclconfig ~/repos/tcl_tclconfig/tclconfig.fossil
Round-trips: 1   Artifacts sent: 0  received: 0
malformed cfile line
Round-trips: 2   Artifacts sent: 0  received: 1248
malformed cfile line
Round-trips: 2   Artifacts sent: 0  received: 1249
Clone done, sent: 608  received: 740574  ip: 2.0.1.187
server returned an error - clone aborted

Do I have the right clone URL? Any other problems you can see here? Thanks,

-Jim

Thanks all! (And, I'll be back, no doubt)

-Jim