RE: [tcltk-perl] packaging Tcl::Tk and Tcl/Tk files within Perl installation

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

Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
> > Your code mostly refers to __hpux, which I am not familiar.
> >
> > Did I understood correctly that "sl" in "libtcl8.4.sl" stands for 
> > "starpack library"?
> 
> No, it stands for "shared library".  It is the HP-UX 
> equivalent of a .so or .dll.

To follow up on this, the code for handling the starpack as
dll has nothing to do with the recent HP-UX support commits
(those are purely for HP-UX).  The code has been in the CVS
for a while now.  If you compile with -DUSE_TCL_STUBS (which
should probably be the default), then when it loads the Tcl
library, we make 2 extra sym checks for TclKit_AppInit, which
would replace Tcl_Init on the interp, and TclKit_SetKitPath.
These are used to indicate the shared library is the starkit
source, and all is contained within it.

Jeff