#2497 fedora 9 tk.spec failure and fix

[Ben Collver]

# rpmbuild -ta /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/tk8.6a2-src.tar.gz
error: Failed build dependencies:
XFree86-devel is needed by tk-8.6a2-2.i386

The above error is discussed at the following document.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-November/msg00277.html

A way to deal with it is discussed at the following document.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag

Attached is a patch to fix the spec, and the fixed spec that worked for me on Fedora 9.

[Ben Collver]

patch to fix problem

[Ben Collver]

spec that worked for me

[Ben Collver]

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File Added: tk.spec

[Don Porter]

rmax, are these changes workable
for you as well?

[Reinhard Max]

It doesn't matter to me, as I have always been using my own .spec file for building Tk and I am not aware of anybody who tries to build Tk on SUSE with the included .spec file.

But looking at the patch, I think the else block should use xorg-x11-devel instead of XFree86-devel, because AFAIK all relevant Linux distributions have been using X.Org instead of XFree86 for several years now.

[Don Porter]

Jeff, is there a good reason we
should remain in the business of
maintaining the *.spec files in the
Tcl and Tk source distributions? Do
we know of anyone successfully using
them? Do we have anyone who can
more adequately maintain them?

[Ben Collver]

If the else block should use xorg-x11-devel then the Fedora version comparison should be inverted. It would save some work to remove the spec file.