Bug 134593 - Neither tcl nor tk provide unversioned library.
Summary: Neither tcl nor tk provide unversioned library.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Development (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: 64bit SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Reinhard Max
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Reported: 2005-11-20 20:09 UTC by Dennis Weilert
Modified: 2006-01-17 08:54 UTC (History)
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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.