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

[Mike C. <da...@gm...>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:37:29 -0700, Jeff Hobbs <je...@ac...> wrote:
> 
> > 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).

The problem isn't  tcl/tk headers, it's X headers.

I ended up with this patch:

diff -ru Tcl-Tk-0.77.orig/Makefile.PL Tcl-Tk-0.77/Makefile.PL
--- Tcl-Tk-0.77.orig/Makefile.PL        2004-04-17 00:35:36.000000000 -0700
+++ Tcl-Tk-0.77/Makefile.PL     2004-04-21 00:01:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     $libspecvar = "TK_LIB_SPEC";
     $libspecvar = "TK_BUILD_LIB_SPEC" if $buildspec;
     my ($tklibpath, $tkincpath) =
-       process_tclconfig($tkconfig, $libspecvar, "TK_INCLUDE_SPEC");
+       process_tclconfig($tkconfig, $libspecvar, "TK_XINCLUDES");
     $libpath .= " $tklibpath";
     $incpath .= " $tkincpath";
 } else {