2014-10-10 12:34 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com>:
> On Oct 9 11:46, tedno...@bellsouth.net wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure I've got some programs loading Tcl extensions that
>> cd into the directory with the extension dlls, load the extension and then
>> change back to where ever they were.
>
> Hmm. If so, it's quite a weird way to handle this, rather than
> loading the modules with full path.
>
> Is that a Tcl "feature", or is it how certain Tcl apps are implemented?
> I can't really believe the former...
This is certainly not a Tcl "feature"! The standard Tcl extension
mechanism always uses the full path simply because Tcl
cannot depend on platform-specific ways to search for
such libraries elsewhere.
I'm willing to test this;I don't believe such a change
will break anything in my Tcl environment.
Regards,
Jan Nijtmans
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