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

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

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:24:49PM -0700, Ian Roxborough wrote:
> Phil Edwards wrote:
> >     -L/home/pme/build/install-2001-09-21/lib -ltclstub8.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hmmmm, looks like this line should point to the build directory. I.E. it should
> probably read -L/home/pme/build/build-2001-09-21/tcl/unix -ltclstub8.3

Yep.  I changed it in the generated Makefile, and the build succeeded.

It's coming from the rules in configure.in which set MAKE_LIB,
TCL_LD_SEARCH_FLAGS, and TK_CC_SEARCH_FLAGS.  The -L paths are taken
from (around line 205) LIB_RUNTIME_DIR, with colons replaced by ' -L'.

And the library's runtime directory is indeed install-2001-09-21/lib.
But that shouldn't be used for link-time searching, or at least not
by itself.

Hmmmmmm... *looks*  Under Red Hat 7.0, libtclstub.8.3.a exists in /usr/lib.
Not under Debian.  That would explain it.  (Same goes for libitclstub.)

In fact, after I copied libtclstub8.3.a and libitclstub3.1.a into /usr/lib,
changed the RANLIB thing in the Makefile.in like I mentioned in my private
email, and regenerated the Makefile, the build passed.


Thanks very much for helping me with this.

Phil

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