[Ifeffit] Athena Run Time Error Solved!

[Dr. Paul Fons]

I wrote earlier that upon trying to install athena on a colleagues 
powerbook, I ran into problems with an undefined value in a call to the 
perl standard routine configure.
e.g.

Tk::Error: Can't call method "configure" on an undefined value at
/sw/bin/athena line 1775, <R> line 9.



It turns out that the problem was related to an earlier windows-related 
post (aka the Ravel-ware post).  Although I had "cleaned" and 
reinstalled several times athena and Tk, I hadn't given a second thought 
to tkatoms -- it had no relation to athena, right?  wrong!  Upon 
reintalling tkatoms, athena worked.  There must be a perl module that is 
installed only with tkatoms that is required by athena.  Consistent with 
this is the observation that artemis worked out-of-the-box (e.g. a 
simple make) without problem.  In any case all is solved.  It might be a 
good idea however to investigate this issue further as I am fairly sure 
that this problem will come up again (not with me though!).  In my case 
(on my own machines), I installed all three programs (tkatoms, athena, 
and artemis) and never ran into the problem.


										Paul