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

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

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 09:25 -0500, Kevin Kenny wrote:

> "Should never ever happen, by policy" is too strong a phrase
> for what's going on.  "Shouldn't happen in a regular old binary
> distribution" is closer to the truth.  There are a few people
> who, for special purposes, build their own applications that
> link everything statically. To do this, they configure Tcl
> and all needed extensions --disable-shared, and then concoct
> a link unit that includes Tcl and all necessary extensions
> as static libraries. The only case where <module>_LIB_SPEC
> would be needed is to support such a build. It appears that
> TEA's configurator fills in <module>_LIB_SPEC in all cases,
> but actually tries to build and install the library only in
> a --disable-shared build.

OK. So, in sum, for a regular distribution, we should put the .la file
in /usr/lib , but everything else - the tdbcConfig.sh file and even
the .so - can go to /usr/lib/tcl(version)/tdbc(version), and everything
normal should work? And I may as well cut the TDBC_LIB_SPEC line out of
tdbcConfig.sh entirely as it wouldn't ever be any use in that situation?
-- 
adamw