Apologies if this has previously been beaten to death, but I searched the archives and could find no mention of it.
I've installed the tcl8.0-dev and tcl7.6-dev packages from unstable. Both of them have stripped shared libraries. I thought "-dev" packages were supposed to have symbols so you could link against them! The net result is that I can't compile C programs that call functions in the tcl shared libraries. There don't seem to be other related packages for doing development with these versions of Tcl. What gives? Segueing into policy, why is it that, for example, libc6-dev installs shared libraries in a separate subdirectory rather than replacing the ones in /usr/lib? Shouldn't the bits be identical, save for the symbol tables, so the programs that use them won't know the difference? The nonstandard location is really inconvenient, and the redundancy doesn't make sense to me, but I'm probably missing something here. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
