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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:59:03 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Where to put Tcl headers (was: "")
Message-ID:  <199608270129.KAA03830@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960826130516.5632K-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 26, 96 01:17:37 pm

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Chuck Robey stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'd like to suggest that maybe a /usr/include/tcl be made, and fully
> populated with the tcl include files, following the directory setup in
> /usr/src/contrib/tcl.  There aren't that many files involved with that (if
> this is limited to .h files) and would take care of the problem.  I think
> this would take care of dependencies for the tk41 port too, which will
> have to be fixed sooner of later too.

This is good.  Or maybe /usr/include/contrib/tcl, but that's perhaps going
too far.

> I would move tcl.h to /usr/include/tcl/tcl.h.

Don't.  Lots of Tcl-dependant software expects to find it on the standard
include path.  You might want to symlink it out rather than have two 
seperate copies though.

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