Dear brothers and systers.

I had worked with Tk under Linux Red Hat 8.0 and life was nice. Than I've upgrated my Linux by Red Hat 9 and as result, I cannot install correctly (make test returns error 2) Tk for Perl but if I nevertheless install it when I try to run a symple script which produces only one window with button, I have error: 

'6x13*font:' isn't numeric at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Widget.pm
line 188.
 at /home/misha/projects/Perl/ichecker/mail-checker.pl line 136
        Tk::Widget::new('Tk::Button','MainWindow=HASH(0x850d4c8)','-te
+xt','Ok','-font','5x12','-command','ARRAY(0x8539c90)')
called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Wi
+dget.pm
line 247
        Tk::Widget::__ANON__('MainWindow=HASH(0x850d4c8)','-text','Ok'
+,'-font','5x12','-command','ARRAY(0x8539c90)')
called at /home/misha/projects/Perl/ichecker/mail-checker.pl line 136
        main::display_x('HASH(0x850a8c4)') called at
/home/misha/projects/Perl/ichecker/mail-checker.pl line 94
 at /home/misha/projects/Perl/ichecker/mail-checker.pl line 136

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I've found some topics about this error in the internet forums. Authors those topics suggest set LANG in 'en_US' instead of 'en_US.UTF-8' as set defaul in RH9. But I still cannot use Tk. I have exactly the same error.

Any suggestions will be useful.

My environment: Red Hat 9, Perl 5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi, Tk 800.025.

Thanks in advanced,

-- Michael Stepanov

In reply to Tk doesn't work under RH9. by nite_man

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