Hi Denis - your points about it being nice to have a single install of 3rd
party packages on your computer is a good one and one which we've debated
a lot internally. We have taken the less-purist approach of bundling
pretty much everything needed for FSL to run in the distribution in order
to make the installation as easy as possible for users, but your points
are valid. As the default presence of packages on OSs changes over time we
re-evaluate what we bundle (for example we don't bundle "dc", though this
is in fact missing on some linuxes, etc).
In fact, with most OS versions of our most recent distribution there is an
easy way to re-point where tixwish and tclsh are - just go to fsl/bin and
edit the tclsh and tixwish scripts. Hopefully that should be
straightforward.
Thanks, Steve.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Denis Brown wrote:
> At 09:24 4/02/2004 +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> >At 00:02 4/02/2004 +0000, Mark Jenkinson wrote:
> >>Several people have had problems getting FSL GUIs to run under
> >>SUSE linux, but we have now found a way to get all the FSL GUIs to run
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslfaq/#general_suse
> >>
> >>Note that this might also be useful for other platforms where it is
> >>desirable or necessary to use the native tcl/tk installation.
>
> <snip>
>
> >--with-tixwish=/usr/bin/wish (Fictitious example but you get my meaning,
> >I'm sure.) I have looked at the installation scripts for FSL and cannot
>
> Just to clarify... I know there is a note in the README file alluding to
> this but it seems that there is still a lot of linking or placing of
> libs/bins in appropriate directories. I was hoping there was an easier
> way whereby FSL could be told where the packages were rather than having to
> have the individual apps compiled to suit FSL. Eg.
>
> - Tcl/Tk (8.3) and Tix (4.1) (configure all three with
> configure --prefix=$FSLDIR before installing and compile Tix
> with make CC='cc -fwritable-strings').
>
> Perhaps I'm interpreting it incorrectly, in which case I humbly accept your
> flames :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Denis
>
Stephen M. Smith DPhil
Associate Director, FMRIB and Analysis Research Coordinator
Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain
John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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