Hi Junio, On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * cc/require-tcl-tk-for-build (2017-11-27) 1 commit > - Makefile: check that tcl/tk is installed > > A first-time builder of Git may have installed neither tclsh nor > msgfmt, in which case git-gui and gitk part will fail and break the > build. As a workaround, refuse to run a build when tclsh is not > installed and NO_TCLTK is not set. > > Undecided. > I still feel that requring tclsh to be installed, with or without > "escape hatch" for experts, may be too heavy-handed. FWIW I agree, from a maintainer's point of view (even if Git for Windows always had a working Tcl/Tk, I remember the times when I did not have the luxury of tclsh being there, and my quota was not enough to allow for compiling *both* emacs and Tcl/Tk on that box). Ciao, Dscho
