tcl-9.0.0

[Xi Ruoyao]

New major version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Highlights of Tcl 9.0

• 64-bit Capacity: Data values larger than 2Gb
• Unicode and Encodings: full codepoint range, added encodings, encoding profiles to govern I/O, and more.
• Zip Filesystems: mount zipfiles as filesystems
• Attached Archives: enable starkit-style deployment of apps, with support data in filesystem archives attached to executable or libraries. Build tclsh and wish this way.
• New Notifiers: The central event handling engine in Tcl is now constructed on top of the system calls epoll or kqueue when they are available. The select based implementation also remains for platforms where they are not.
• Many new commands and features

Important Incompatibilities in Tcl 9.0

• Namespace varname resolution: Current namespace, not global.
• I/O malencoding: now raises error by default.
• Tilde (~) in pathnames: no longer interpreted as home directory.
• tcl_precision no longer has effect on number formatting

[Xi Ruoyao]

On my system it seems using /usr/bin/zip. Not sure what will happen in the LFS chroot environment.

[Xi Ruoyao]

On another system w/o zip installed, the build fails because when building the thread sub-package the building system attempts to find "minizip" at a wrong location. It can be worked around with make NATIVE_ZIP=$PWD/minizip (i.e. overriding the relative path NATIVE_ZIP=./minizip in the Makefile).

Maybe we should report this to upstream.

[Xi Ruoyao]

The sed expression

-e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.1.9/library|/usr/lib/tcl8.6|"

contains hard-coded "8.6" and it seems just wrong even with tcl-8.6.x (IIRC someone has complained via lfs-support or dev). It looks like /usr/lib/tcl8.6 should be /usr/lib/tdbc1.1.9 (where we can find tdbc.tcl) instead.

[Xi Ruoyao]

12 tests require an Internet connection, so it looks like they'll fail in the chroot.