Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6b1 Release Candidates

[Adam W. <awi...@ma...>]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 13:44 -0500, Donald G Porter wrote:
> You will now find RC0 release candidate distributions for Tcl/Tk 8.6b1
> at ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_6/ .
> 
> These will not be the actual 8.6b1 release.  At a minimum, I need to
> make updates to the "changes" files.  However, I wanted to get the
> code files themselves out for test builds.
> 
> I don't plan to hold actual release of 8.6b1 just for discovered bugs,
> but if there's some total failure to build on some platform or in some
> configuration, lets please find and fix that.

Builds and runs fine as MDV Cooker package, in a cursory test.

Just one question about the tdbc thing: it's installed
in /usr/lib/tdbc1.0b1 but includes a tdbcConfig.sh file whose contents
implies it may be used as a directly linked library. In this usage case,
how do you expect the app that links against it to be able to find it?
Subdirectories of /usr/lib are not usually in ld's path.

For MDV I patched tdbc up quite a bit to comply with the Fedora /
Mandriva policy, which requires the library itself and the tdbcConfig.sh
file to go into /usr/lib , while the pkgIndex.tcl and tdbc.tcl files go
to /usr/lib/tcl8.6/tdbc1.0b1 , but that's not strictly relevant to
upstream. Doing it that way, though, it should actually work if an app
wants to link directly against tdbc as a library.
-- 
adamw