From sstanton@eng.sun.com Tue Oct 28 15:51:35 CST 1997
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From: Scott Stanton <sstanton@eng.sun.com>
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Subject: Re: A Bug Really this time
Date: 27 Oct 1997 09:53:05 -0800
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Bob Jackson <jackson@stsci.edu> writes:

> 
> I noticed that native threads were not installed in our
> local version of JDK:

> Which makes me wonder if all the native thread patches to Solaris
> and JDK must be installed for tclBlend to work.

TclBlend is not dynamically loadable into tclsh using green
threads. You have to build a special version of tclsh that initializes
the Java VM before Tcl does any I/O operations.  I would recommend
that you apply the Solaris patches and use the native threads version
if you can.

--Scott