Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl on FreeBSD

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

2013/6/3 Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...>:
> It appears that all BSD variants originally used '=', while solaris and linux
> originally used a space. So, I suspect that originally BSD had its own
> syntax, but later adapted the solaris/linux syntax.
Well, it's reverse: the linux 'ld' man-page mentions '=', while BSD
appears to use space.

Anyway, for the BSD variants, ',' is the safest approach, and that's
what I committed. Thanks!
> For 8.4 we shouldn't risk anything, so I committed the safest
> approach here:
>        <https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/873b92326c>   (for Tcl)
> and here:
>        <http://core.tcl.tk/tk/info/b5c3b552ac>    (for Tk)
>
> @Pietro: please confirm that this works, so Don can finish the 8.4.20 release.

Don, it appears that all lights are green now for 8.4.20.

Regards,
        Jan Nijtmans