Re: PL/Tcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal'

Tom, Jan,

thanks for your feedback! I suspect there might be a problem with the OS X
way of linking. Right now I don't have the time to investigate this any
further. But I'll have to get back to it in a couple of weeks and will keep
you posted...

cheers

Fabian

> Fabian Peters <fabian(at)ngi(dot)de> writes:
>>> ERROR: pltcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal' interpreter
>
>> Any ideas as to what might be the problem or how to get some more detailed
>> info greatly appreciated...
>
> Apparently Tcl_CreateSlave() is failing. Although it doesn't say so on
> its man page, it seems likely to me that the parent interpreter's result
> would be set to a possibly-useful error message. You might try adding
> code to pltcl.c to add the "hold" interpreter's result to this error
> message.
>
> We've heard other reports of strange failures involving Tcl_CreateSlave,
> but AFAIR the other ones prevented pltcl.so from even getting linked.
> If you learn anything I'd like to hear about it...
>
> regards, tom lane