Posted to tcl by jenglish at Wed Nov 05 17:49:32 GMT 2008view raw

  1. Packages which used to use the debian-specific hack TCL_INC_DIR from
  2. tclConfig.sh to find the tcl (or tk) headers should be modified to use
  3. the new patented upstream TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC variable instead.
  4.  
  5. TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC was introduced with Tcl8.4, but I have backported it
  6. to 8.3, for consistency's sake.
  7.  
  8. TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC is a little different than TCL_INC_DIR -- it includes
  9. a "-I" in front of the path, so if you were using "-I$TCL_INC_DIR",
  10. you should change it to just "$TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC". If you were doing
  11. something with TCL_INC_DIR that isn't compatible with have "-I" at the
  12. front, LET ME KNOW!
  13.  
  14. TCL_INC_DIR will be going away! Let me say this again, TCL_INC_DIR
  15. WILL BE GOING AWAY, just as soon as I think I can possibly get away
  16. with it. At that time, anything still using TCL_INC_DIR will *break*!
  17. If you have a problem with that, LET ME KNOW, as soon as possible!
  18.  
  19. cheers
  20. Chris Waters, 8 Dec 2002