Bug 134593

Summary:	Neither tcl nor tk provide unversioned library.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Dennis Weilert <drweilert>
Component:	Development	Assignee:	Reinhard Max <max>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Dennis Weilert 2005-11-20 20:09:57 UTC

While trying to install an RPM, it complained about libtcl.so and libtk.so as not being provided.  Most library packages put links from unversioned file to the versioned file.  tcl and tk do not.  I was able to build the software from scratch by installing the links by hand.  But I was unable to install the RPM.

Comment 1 Reinhard Max 2005-11-21 12:24:10 UTC

libtcl and libtk don't use sonames and hence don't need tose unversioned links in order to be linked against.

Instead packages that link against Tcl/Tk should use the tcl.m4 file from the Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA) in their configure system. It provides m4 macros to find out the flags for compiling and linking against Tcl/Tk.

Is the RPM you are mentioning an extension to Tcl or an application that embeds Tcl?

Comment 2 Reinhard Max 2006-01-17 08:54:16 UTC

No answer in almost two months. Can't have been that important.