packaging bug for tcl/tk ?

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On Oct 12, 2004 at 21:50, David Jansen in a soothing rage wrote:

>After compiling a package which is linked to tcl/tk I noticed it doesn't
>want to run on other machines. It turns out that the package was linked
>using -ltcl -ltk, so it requires libtcl.so and libtk.so, but:
>$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtcl.so
>tcl-devel-8.4.5-7
>$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtk.so
>tk-devel-8.4.5-8
>
>So those libraries are part of the -devel rpms. Is this a bug in
>packaging, or should software explicitly link to a specific version,
>e.g. -ltcl8.4 -ltk8.4 ? (since libtcl8.4.so is part of the tcl-8.4.5-7
>rpm). 
>Or is it really necessary to have these -devel rpms present on every
>machine? (which would be problematic since tk-devel has a dependency on
>the X devel rpms so this would pull in a lot of additional stuff)
You did not tell us the full story...

[work]$ locate libtcl
/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
...
/usr/lib/libtcl.so
[work]$ ls -al /usr/lib/libtcl.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 Jun  3 14:49 /usr/lib/libtcl.so -> 
libtcl8.4.so

So we now see that libtcl.so is a symlink to libtcl8.4.so. Therefore
create these symlinks on the other machines. Repeat for libtk.so as 
well.

N.Emile...
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