I tried downloading the current version of tcl (8.3.4) from their web site and compiling it on my year-old "potato" debian. I typed ./configure and "make", and at some point got this error:
/ceblair/incoming/tcl8.3.4/unix/libtcl8.3.so: undefined reference to `atexit' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [tclsh] Error 1 This seemed to puzzle the people on the tcl mailing list. Can anyone here explain what might be causing this? PS I tried compiling tcl for myself, rather than using the debian package, because I needed to control where the binary went for later use. In any case, I think it's a legitimate question why the compilation is failing.