Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:00:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new tcl/tk versions Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960109105539.1250D-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601090957.BAA19061@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: [trimmed context]> > Actually, tcl7.4pl2 and tk4.0pl2 have been in the ports tree for some > time. They are in separate directories (lang/tcl74 and x11/tk4) so > that the originals are still available. Yes, shared library support > is there too. > > How are they compared to tcl7.5a2 and tk4.1a2? Do the a's mean > "alpha"? Do you think we can replace tcl74 and tk4 with these? > > And I agree about the confused state part, I avoided the shlib > problems by appending the version number to the basename part of the > new libraries, e.g., libtcl74.so.1.0 instead of libtcl.so.7.4. This > makes at least our binary packages work, but the headers (tcl.h and > such) still overwrite the originals so compilation of ports that use > tcl7.3/tk3.6 will still fail if the new version is installed (last). Yeah, the 7.5a2 and 4.1a2 are tne next versions up. I noticed that these have stayed in place now several months, so maybe they might have some stability. I wanted to experiment on one of my two machines with letting them be the _only_ tcl/tk versions, so I changed the port to yield unmodified names, along with the changes needed by the newer versions. These things fail about the last half of the tests right now. There's a disclaimer in the READMEs that warns of this, but I'm just a little wary. Maybe this isn't yet ports material, Satoshi. Did you see my glimpse port? > > Satoshi > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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