Hi John, For G.I.Feffit, I think it's just a matter of getting a version of python with Tkinter built-in. If perl/Tk were installed, I'd guess that athena and tkatoms would run fine too. These are both (python/Tkinter and perl with Tk) a small amount of work to install. Maybe you can get a student interested ...?
cd /usr/local/src/ifeffit_1.0b/wrappers/tcl 44# sh Build cc -fpic -g -c -I../../src/lib ifeffit_wrap.c -o ifeffit_wrap.o cc ERROR parsing -fpic: unknown flag *** Error code 2 (bu21)
Oh, the Makefile for wrappers/tcl has '-fpic' hard-wired in, which is badly gcc-specific. I don't recall what SGI's CC wants for 'make a shared library', but with that, it's probably pretty easy to make the tcl wrapper. I don't know of a standard/portable way to build a tcl extension, so the tcl Makefile is pretty kludgy and might need some hand-editing. --Matt