Hiya, I'm trying to put together a package that uses tk, but the config script that comes with the upstream package doesn't detect tcl or tk properly... The tests are just completely wrong... I guess the Debian packages for tcl/tk put things in non-standard locations?
Anyhow, I imagine there are lots of packages that rely on tcl/tk in Debian, so is there a common or "correct" fix for this? Some details for those interested: ./configure looks for the files /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh and /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh, but on Debian they are in /usr/lib/tcl<version>/tclConfig.sh and /usr/lib/tk<version>/tkConfig.sh. I got around this problem by specifying --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.3 and --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.3, so it found the configuration scripts, but it doesn't do any good because ./configure looks in /usr/include for the tcl.h and tk.h files rather than /usr/include/tcl8.3 and /usr/include/tk8.3... There's no handy ./configure option to specify these paths, so I think I'm left with the option of patching the script to use these paths (which I don't think is a good solution) or getting a more recent version of the configure script that handles tcl correctly on Debian... Any recommendations? -- Brett
