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.
--Wart
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