Error : - Waiting for ipc: to terminate

This is because you are using ipcWait and the process is blocking. I explained this in my reply to your other post here. You should use an asynchronous approach instead if you want it not to block.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew for you valuable feedback!!

Andrew.. i was wondering when i started to run the process...its showing Error: as requires Tcl 8.5 or higher in CIW.

i checked with my shell window ..in there tclsh is of version 8.6.

Is it that skill file is running on its CIW env and taking TCL version less than 8.5?

How can i run the script in my parent shell window and also check which version tcl version virtuoso is using...like in shell cmd there is "which tclsh"?

My guess is that the program you're launching is Tcl-based?

SKILL doesn't care about TCL - it's just that (for various reasons) the "virtuoso" wrappers set the TCL_LIBRARY env var (I'm guessing you're running IC6.1.7 as IC6.1.8 seems to set $TCL_LIBRARY to an 8.6 version of TCL). You can either use ipcBeginProcess("unset TCL_LIBRARY; abc.sh" ...) or just use:

unsetShellEnvVar("TCL_LIBRARY")

in your SKILL somewhere to unset it.

Andrew

Hi there,

What I'm doing in such situations:

From virtuoso open the Library Manager, then from LibManager open a new shell window.
Here you will have the an identical environment like the one where the script is running.

It is very handy to do debug in this shell.

E.g. in my case, I have tcl 8.4 (virtuoso 6.1.6)
~ :-)>echo $TCL_LIBRARY
/opt/..../tools/dfII/etc/tcl8.4

BR,

Marcel

Hi there,

What I'm doing in such situations:

From virtuoso open the Library Manager, then from LibManager open a new shell window.
Here you will have the an identical environment like the one where the script is running.

It is very handy to do debug in this shell.

E.g. in my case, I have tcl 8.4 (virtuoso 6.1.6)
~ :-)>echo $TCL_LIBRARY
/opt/..../tools/dfII/etc/tcl8.4

BR,

Marcel

Thanks Marcel,

I think same 8.4 is set in my tcl_lib of shell window in lib manager.

Is there way/command to modified so that Error: as requires Tcl 8.5 or higher did not pop while running process?

There are a few things you should check - if you are seeing this error when running the command from a terminal launched from Virtuoso, you should check:

1. What is the command you're running doing? Is it using "tclsh" or "wish" as part of the script? If so, is the path for it hardcoded in the script or is it finding tclsh/wish from the UNIX path?
2. What does "which wish" and "which tclsh" show in the terminal window - is it from your OS, or from a Cadence hierarchy?
3. What does "env | grep TCL_LIBRARY" and "env | grep TK_LIBRARY" show in the terminal window?

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Below are the checkpoints ans-

1) am running shell file...Path is hardcoded.

2)by doing wish tclsh it is showing cadence hiearchy  /pkg/cadence-icadv-/12.20.706/i686-linux/tools/bin/64bit/tclsh

3) TCL_LIBRARY=/pkg/cadence-icadv-/12.20.706/i686-linux/tools/dfII/etc/tcl8.4

Moreover, still my confusion is that why process is switching to virtuoso terminal instead of parent shell terminal?

The Virtuoso wrappers adjust the UNIX path and also certain environment variables to ensure that processes launched by Virtuoso have the correct environment. This is because Virtuoso does itself use a few Tcl/Tk-based applications shipped with Virtuoso. These are probably competing with your own application.

However, what is odd is that you said you're using IC6.1.8, and these paths are from ICADV12.2. The tclsh link in tools/bin/64bit is no longer there in IC6.1.8 or ICADVM18.1/20.1 (it happened in IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.2/ICADV12.3) - so this must be something in your environment set up before you launch Virtuoso. So check your UNIX path and environment.

Andrew