Re: Tcl/Tk update on the upgrade...

[Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:12:07AM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > GDB's and BINUTILS' combined CVS repository also contains a copy of
> > dejagnu, expect and tcl.  Creating a source tree containing that and
> > GCC and then testing it is a very common pratice (well I thought it
> > was until now).  Any changes Ian makes to tcl are going to directly
> > affect anyone using the src dejagnu to test GCC.
> 
> I think you're correct about it being a common practice, Andrew. Since
> a lot of the 'make check' routines rely on current versions of
> dejagnu, this is an issue for gcc developers as well.

This was a common practice for me, too, until a few days ago.  Since then
the tcl/tk/tix builds have been breaking with either ranlib not recognizing
the .so file format (???), or more recently,

    rm -f libtk8.3.so
    gcc -pipe -shared -o libtk8.3.so tk3d.o [... bunch of object files ...]
    -Wl,-rpath,/home/pme/build/install-2001-09-21/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
    -L/home/pme/build/install-2001-09-21/lib -ltclstub8.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
    -lX11 -ldl -lieee -lm -lc
    /usr/local/gcc-3.0/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -ltclstub8.3
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    gmake[2]: *** [libtk8.3.so] Error 1
    gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pme/build/build-2001-09-21/tk/unix'
    gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
    gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pme/build/build-2001-09-21/tk'
    gmake: *** [all-tk] Error 2

libtclstub8.3.a is right over in ../../tcl/unix.  Why isn't that being
searched?  Why am I the only one seeing this?  :-)

Phil

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