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Re: 9.3 Linux: Tcl/Tk missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 21 01:28:07 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:28:02 -0400
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:21, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> On Linux 9.3.1, /usr/lib/libtcl.so and /usr/lib/libtk.so are missing. I have
> a number of applications that depend on these.
Presumably only at compile time, yes? How do you build these packages
on Solaris?
RHEL 3 dropped the tcl-devel package, among many other -devel packages.
The justification given in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101858
is that they want to limit their "ABI exposure," which makes no sense in
this case. Andrew claims many of the -devel packages will be added back
into the next quarterly update of RHEL 3; if so, we will put them into a
patch release as soon as that comes out.
