From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 12 20:38:10 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA03993 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 20:38:10 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA03983 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 20:38:05 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA16555; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:38:01 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id XAA06452; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:38:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:38:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Julian Elischer cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi, In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > just something I noticed.. > the tclDP port insists on bringing in the tcl port > and building it, even if you hae installed the tcl package, > because it fails to find the tcl shared lib... > > I don't pretend to understand the ports stuff.. I was thinking about that yesterday. I wanted to build a super-wish, because that's what my favorite debugger (tgdb) wants. Problem is, all of the tcl extensions all seem to want the same thing: to be sited in such a way that ALL of the tcl tool build directories are subdirs of the same directory. Our ports setup doesn't allow for this. I have (on my machine) gotten around this by creating links that cheat to get this kind of organization. I do kinda wish that tcl could be handled as some kind of special case for ports, tho. I haveta build TkSteal, which isn't a port, but needs that organization. I bet that's why tclDP doesn't find tcl. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0.5-snap-0726) and (301) 220-2114 | n3lxx (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap-0622) -- Great! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------