Note: I'm copying this to debian-devel to get feedback on my response to Philippe's question #3. If you do respond, please include a direct response to me in addition to the list. I was inadvertantly dropped from debian-devel three weeks ago and no amount of trying on my or Bruce's parts has been able to get me back on the list.
Philippe Troin writes: > 1) When compiling (make -f debian.rules) Tcl (needed to build tclX, > what a shame that you need the tcl/tk source tree), I have errors > in tclPosixStr.c about a case having same value (EDEADLOCK and > EDEADLK are both defined and have the same value). Fixed by adding > an #if EDEADLOCK != EDEADLK. > Did you recompile it lately ? I'm aware of the problem, but haven't had time to fix it yet. > 2) I've tried to 'make test' in both tcl7.5 and tk4.1 source trees, > both failed. Shouldn't we report this to the Tcl/Tk maintainers > and/or try to fix it ? This works perfectly on other systems (tried > Solaris). What do you mean by failed? If you mean some individual tests fail, then that is expected. I believe all of the Tk failures are due to non-portable tests. I have not had time to look into the Tcl fileevent failures yet, but I suspect they are either due to non-portable tests also or libc bugs. > 3) I think I should have tclX be the same (regarding package > management) and tcl and tk. ie, I will have tclX74 and tclX75, both > incompatible with tclX. tclX74-dev and tcl75-dev being mutually > exclusive too... What do you think about it ? I agree, for now. One change I'm considering is to give each major Tcl version it's own include directory (e.g. /usr/include/tcl7.4, /usr/include/tcl7.5). This would make it easier to have multiple development packages installed simultaneously. The limitation of only having one installed at a time is quickly becoming a problem because of the way Tcl/Tk-based packages are tied to a specific version of Tcl/Tk. What do you think? > 4) I plan having a separate tclX7[45]-doc package for the help > system (/usr/lib/tclX/7.*/help and /usr/bin/tclhelp). What's your > opinion on that one ? I've considered doing something like this with the section 3 manual pages for Tcl/Tk. The reason I hadn't done it yet is that I didn't want to create yet another package unless I really needed to or someone else wanted it. > 5) I haven't had time yet to look after the other platform stuff. > Last time you told me to remove any hard-coded "i386" for the > debian support. I assume you're talking about the debian.* file,s > right ? Yes. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
