exec issue in TCL 8.4

[zombieZero]

I was previously running TCL 8.3 and there is a bit in our infrastructure here that basically execs another file. So, within a method, I have something like:

eval exec module1.tcl $args

Then inside module1.tcl it parses the args, etc and runs a series of commands.

This worked fine in tcl 8.3 but when I upgrade to 8.4, I get an error whenever the exec command is called. It complains "Command not found" every time it encounters any commands inside module1.tcl - when I tried to put some debug in and added a 'puts' to the very start of module1.tcl, it complained that the command 'puts' was not found.

Does anyone out there know what might explain this behavior?

 

[Bong]

I'm surprised it worked in 8.3. I think the command you want to execute is "tclsh", and then pass "module1.tcl" as the first argument.

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Bob Rashkin

 

[zombieZero]

Thanks - it did turn out to be related to tclsh, at the head of the script was the line #!/usr/bin/tcl and as fate would have it 8.4 no longer has tclx as a separate binary which seemed to get rid of the tcl executable. I replaced it with #!/usr/bin/env tclsh and that seemed to fix the problem.

Thanks as always Bong for the response