[xcrysden] compiling on tcl 8.6

[Tone Kokalj]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:16 +0100, Lorenzo Paulatto wrote:
> Dear XCD users,
> in case you are trying to compile XCrysDen with TCL 8.6 and you're
> getting this error:
>   Tcl_Interp’ has no member named ‘result’
> 
> you have to add "-DUSE_INTERP_RESULT" (no quotes) to the CFLAGS in
> Make.sys. The code will then build with tcl8.6 (to be honest, I only did
> bindist-shared).
> 
> This should solve the problem, I don't know if the feature is planned
> for removal eventually but give the frequency of TCL releases I think
> there's no immediate need to worry.

Lorenzo,

Thanks for the info!

I agree that there is no immediate need to worry about this issue, but
eventually the code will need to be adopted and this backward
incompatibility fixed, moreover because the fix is not difficult.

Regards.
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