RE: [tcltk-perl] Re: issue building Tcl-Tk-0.77

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> It turns out that, indeed, now Tcl is actually linking against libtcl.
> 
> However, Tcl-Tk is still having issues.
> 
> Particularly, it's trying to use TK_INCLUDE_SPEC.
> 
> However, I just unpacked every version of tk8.4.0 through 
> tk8.4.6, and NONE of them use TK_INCLUDE_SPEC.

You are correct, that var is a red herring and can be removed.
Tcl and Tk should have their includes in the same place, so the
TK_INCLUDE_SPEC will always be empty, but TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC will
carry the contents regardless (and is also used).

> So I'm not sure if this is a bug in tk for not shipping with 
> that; or Tcl-Tk for trying to use a feature that hasn't 
> officially been shipped yet.....

Needs to be corrected in Tcl-Tk.

  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos