#1328 closed defect (invalid)
tcl instructions break tk build
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | ~CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
The current instructions for tcl break tk's build for me, tk fails to find tclInt.h - after much head-scratching and kicking, I eventually fixed my build by adding yet another sed for tclConfig.sh, based on gentoo's current ebuild:
sed -i "s,TCL_SRC_DIR=.*,TCL_SRC_DIR=/usr/lib/tcl${V}/include," tclConfig.sh
looks as if lfs and gentoo are doing similar things here (ok, so gentoo probably puts the includes as a directory within /usr/lib/tcl8.4), but gentoo seem to do a whole lot more seds in tclConfig.sh. e.g. http://ftp.cgu.edu.tw/Linux/Gentoo/portage/dev-lang/tcl/tcl-8.4.9.ebuild
but since I don't really grok all of the tcl/tk build without keeping the source around, maybe there's a better way.
BTW, who the hell decided to use ',' as the delimiter for these seds ? From here it looks _really_ hard to read :)
As much as I hate to refute Ken's word, I am confident that the current Tcl/TK instructions work as shown in the book.
Perhaps Ken had an issue with changing from an unprivileged user to the root user and the build variables did not get carried across. Anyway, these instructions work and I can't see spending time trying to fix what ain't broke.
Marking this bug as invalid.