tcl 8.5 alpha in fedora 7?

jfontain at free.fr jfontain at free.fr
Fri Feb 9 07:44:17 UTC 2007


Quoting Michael Thomas <wart at kobold.org>:

> Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:
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> > Michael Thomas wrote:
> >> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >>> Jean-Luc Fontaine <jfontain <at> free.fr> writes:
> >>>> Well, then there's gonna be a big problem with blt (now in extras, a
> >>>> graphical library) which is far from ready to compile against
> >>>> tcl-8.5,
> >>> The strange thing is that it doesn't show up in the "broken
> >>> dependencies" list, so RPM thinks the version built against 8.4 is
> >>> still going to run (there's no dependency on the versioned soname).
> >>> I don't know whether that's true.
> >> It's likely compiled against the Tcl stubs library,
> > blt certainly is not: would you be willing to try to make it work?
> > (like I mentioned before, I cannot do it).
> > But be advised that the blt CVS does not even compile...
>
> Yes, I'm willing to work on it.  I maintain almost 20 other Tcl
> extensions, so I wouldn't be surprised to run into the same problems in
> multiple places.

Great! Of course I will be helping testing it.




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