packaging bug for tcl/tk ?

[Paul Howarth]

David Jansen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:30:06PM -0400, ne... wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>[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.

Fiddling with symlinks like this is really a workaround and certainly not the 
real solution for the problem.

> Yes, that does the trick as well. The fact remains that aparently the
> tcl and tk rpms alone are insufficient to run certain tcl/tk
> applications, which makes it a bug IMHO.
> Or is this the expected behaviour and is the bug in the Makefile or
> configure script of this software that links to -ltcl -ltk (without the
> version numbers)?

/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh seems to suggest that "-L/usr/lib -ltcl8.4" is the right 
set of options to use when building TCL apps (see the TCL_LIB_SPEC variable in 
this script).

Paul.