From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 22 12:34:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06483 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06476 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA04874; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:00:07 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199802221900.UAA04874@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: how many tk version do oyu need... To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:00:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@james.hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com In-Reply-To: from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Feb 22, 98 12:50:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Where it does involve patches, you are encouraged to submit your > patches to the author. If it doesn't work under FreeBSD with the > standard Tcl/Tk that FreeBSD uses, it's a porting problem. Just > as if a port uses gmake instead of pmake. Sometimes it's easiest > for us to correctly fix the problem with patches, sometimes it's > easier to load an emulation module (gmake, in the last example). yes i know, i just wanted to point out the problem since yesterday compiling 3 ports i got tk8, tk42 and tk41 in a row, and i am not sure people was following a strategy on this. unlike make/gmake, the bloat with tk is very large since it installs a ton of files, and emulation is not really a ppossibility (or, at least, unless tk has a backward compatible mode... but i doubt it.. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message