New tcl8.4.15 is released

[Wart]

Michael Thomas wrote:
> Marcela Maslanova wrote:
>>> I'm certainly interested in upgrading to 8.4.15.  I would hope that some
>>> of the auto_path patches could be added at the same time (but I won't
>>> hold my breath).
>>>
>>> --Wart
>>>
>>>   
>> If you want to add some patches to auto_path let me know. But changes
>> for example /usr/lib
>> to /usr/lib64 could break some dependencies. Isn't too late for this
>> change?
>>
>> Let me know your opinion on auto_path. It should be fixed.
> 
> The main change I want to make to auto_path is to add /usr/lib/tcl8.4
> (or /usr/lib64/tcl8.4 on x86_64) to the auto_path so that extensions can
> be installed in either %_datadir or %_libdir and still be found.  This
> won't impact existing extensions because their installation directories
> would still be part of auto_path.
> 
> When tcl 8.5 is available then we can look at removing some directories
> from auto_path (namely /usr/lib and /usr/share) to speed up the initial
> startup time for Tcl applications.  But this is a more invasive change
> that will require patching almost all of the current Tcl extensions.
> 
> For now, adding %{_libdir}/tcl8.4 will be a good intermediate step that
> will allow extensions to slowly migrate to the proper tcl-specific
> install directories before we remove the generic /usr/share and /usr/lib
>  from auto_path.
> 
> With your permission I'll update the tcl package in CVS to use this
> extra auto_path directory.

Below is a trivial patch to the existing patch in CVS to make this fix.

--Wart

Index: tcl-confi.patch
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RCS file: /cvs/extras/rpms/tcl/devel/tcl-confi.patch,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 tcl-confi.patch
--- tcl-confi.patch     31 Jul 2007 09:54:53 -0000      1.1
+++ tcl-confi.patch     4 Aug 2007 23:27:08 -0000
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
       TCL_PACKAGE_PATH="${libdir} ${prefix}/lib"
   else
  -    TCL_PACKAGE_PATH="${prefix}/lib"
-+    TCL_PACKAGE_PATH="${libdir} ${prefix}/share"
++    TCL_PACKAGE_PATH="${libdir} ${prefix}/share ${prefix}/share/tcl8.4 
${libdir}/tcl8.4"
   fi

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