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Package updates.

Ensure tcl documentation install instructions are present.
Update to Python3-3.9.7.
Update to linux-5.14.3.
Update to libcap-2.57.
Update to iproute2-5.14.0.
Update to inetutils-2.2.
Update to gzip-1.11.
Update to gdbm-1.21.
Update to bison-3.8.1.
Update to bc-5.0.2.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6 <!ENTITY tdbc-ver "1.1.2">
7 <!ENTITY itcl-ver "4.2.1">
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-tcl" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="tcl.html"?>
12
13 <sect1info condition="script">
14 <productname>tcl</productname>
15 <productnumber>&tcl-version;</productnumber>
16 <address>&tcl-url;</address>
17 </sect1info>
18
19 <title>Tcl-&tcl-version;</title>
20
21 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tcl">
22 <primary sortas="a-Tcl">Tcl</primary>
23 </indexterm>
24
25 <sect2 role="package">
26 <title/>
27
28 <para>The <application>Tcl</application> package contains the Tool Command Language,
29 a robust general-purpose scripting language. The <application>Expect</application> package
30 is written in the <application>Tcl</application> language.</para>
31
32 <segmentedlist>
33 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
34 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
35
36 <seglistitem>
37 <seg>&tcl-tmp-sbu;</seg>
38 <seg>&tcl-tmp-du;</seg>
39 </seglistitem>
40 </segmentedlist>
41
42 </sect2>
43
44 <sect2 role="installation">
45 <title>Installation of Tcl</title>
46
47 <para>This package and the next two (Expect and DejaGNU) are
48 installed to support running the test suites for binutils and GCC and other
49 packages. Installing three packages for testing purposes may seem
50 excessive, but it is very reassuring, if not essential, to know that the
51 most important tools are working properly.</para>
52
53<!-- <para>Note that the Tcl package used here is a minimal version needed
54 to run the LFS tests. For the full package, see the
55 <ulink url='&blfs-book;general/tcl.html'>BLFS Tcl procedures</ulink>.</para>-->
56
57 <para>First, unpack the documentation by issuing the following command:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -xf ../tcl&tcl-version;-html.tar.gz --strip-components=1</userinput></screen>
60
61 <para>Prepare Tcl for compilation:</para>
62
63<screen><userinput remap="configure">SRCDIR=$(pwd)
64cd unix
65./configure --prefix=/usr \
66 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
67 $([ "$(uname -m)" = x86_64 ] &amp;&amp; echo --enable-64bit)</userinput></screen>
68
69 <variablelist>
70 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
71
72 <varlistentry>
73 <term><parameter>$([ "$(uname -m)" = x86_64 ] &amp;&amp; echo --enable-64bit)</parameter></term>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>The construct <parameter>$(&lt;shell command&gt;)</parameter>
76 is replaced by the output of the shell command. Here this output is
77 empty if running on a 32 bit machine, and is
78 <parameter>--enable-64bit</parameter> if running on a 64 bit machine.
79 </para>
80 </listitem>
81 </varlistentry>
82
83 </variablelist>
84
85 <para>Build the package:</para>
86
87<screen><userinput remap="make">make
88
89sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix|/usr/lib|" \
90 -e "s|$SRCDIR|/usr/include|" \
91 -i tclConfig.sh
92
93sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|/usr/lib/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|" \
94 -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/generic|/usr/include|" \
95 -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/library|/usr/lib/tcl8.6|" \
96 -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|/usr/include|" \
97 -i pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/tdbcConfig.sh
98
99sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/itcl&itcl-ver;|/usr/lib/itcl&itcl-ver;|" \
100 -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl&itcl-ver;/generic|/usr/include|" \
101 -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl&itcl-ver;|/usr/include|" \
102 -i pkgs/itcl&itcl-ver;/itclConfig.sh
103
104unset SRCDIR</userinput></screen>
105
106 <para>The various <quote>sed</quote> instructions after the
107 <quote>make</quote> command removes references to the build directory from
108 the configuration files and replaces them with the install directory.
109 This is not mandatory for the remainder of LFS, but may be needed in case a
110 package built later uses Tcl.</para>
111
112 <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
113
114<screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
115<!--
116 <note>
117 <para>
118 In the test results there are several places associated with clock.test
119 that indicate a failure, but the summary at the end indicates no
120 failures. clock.test passes on a complete LFS system.
121 </para>
122 </note>
123-->
124 <para>One test, unixInit-1.2, is known to fail.</para>
125
126 <para>Install the package:</para>
127
128<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
129
130 <para>Make the installed library writable so debugging symbols can
131 be removed later:</para>
132
133<screen><userinput remap="install">chmod -v u+w /usr/lib/libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so</userinput></screen>
134
135 <para>Install Tcl's headers. The next package, Expect, requires them.</para>
136
137<screen><userinput remap="install">make install-private-headers</userinput></screen>
138
139 <para>Now make a necessary symbolic link:</para>
140
141<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sfv tclsh&tcl-major-version; /usr/bin/tclsh</userinput></screen>
142
143 <para>Rename a man page that conflicts with a Perl man page:</para>
144
145 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv /usr/share/man/man3/{Thread,Tcl_Thread}.3</userinput></screen>
146
147 <para>If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
148 the following commands:</para>
149
150 <screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -v -p /usr/share/doc/tcl-&tcl-version;
151cp -v -r ../html/* /usr/share/doc/tcl-&tcl-version;</userinput></screen>
152
153 </sect2>
154
155 <sect2 id="contents-tcl" role="content">
156 <title>Contents of Tcl</title>
157
158 <segmentedlist>
159 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
160 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
161
162 <seglistitem>
163 <seg>
164 tclsh (link to tclsh&tcl-major-version;) and
165 tclsh&tcl-major-version;
166 </seg>
167 <seg>
168 libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so and
169 libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a
170 </seg>
171 </seglistitem>
172 </segmentedlist>
173
174 <variablelist>
175 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
176 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
177 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
178
179 <varlistentry id="tclsh&tcl-major-version;">
180 <term><command>tclsh&tcl-major-version;</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>The Tcl command shell</para>
183 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tcl tclsh&tcl-major-version;">
184 <primary sortas="b-tclsh&tcl-major-version;">tclsh&tcl-major-version;</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188
189 <varlistentry id="tclsh">
190 <term><command>tclsh</command></term>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>A link to tclsh&tcl-major-version;</para>
193 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tcl tclsh">
194 <primary sortas="b-tclsh">tclsh</primary>
195 </indexterm>
196 </listitem>
197 </varlistentry>
198
199 <varlistentry id="libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so">
200 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so</filename></term>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>The Tcl library</para>
203 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tcl libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so">
204 <primary sortas="c-libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so">libtcl&tcl-major-version;.so</primary>
205 </indexterm>
206 </listitem>
207 </varlistentry>
208
209 <varlistentry id="libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a">
210 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a</filename></term>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>The Tcl Stub library</para>
213 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tcl libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a">
214 <primary sortas="c-libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a">libtclstub&tcl-major-version;.a</primary>
215 </indexterm>
216 </listitem>
217 </varlistentry>
218
219 </variablelist>
220
221 </sect2>
222
223</sect1>
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