some packages do not build against version 8.6 and show errors like this: error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result' and error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'errorline' This is due to a removal of an old and deprecated (at least since 2004) feature. Here some simple fixes: Version A (will stop working with tcl/tk-9.0): append -DUSE_INTERP_RESULT and/or -DUSE_INTERP_ERRORLINE to the *FLAGS. Version B (long lasting and better): patch code (and send upstream) to use Tcl_GetResult(), Tcl_GetStringResult(), Tcl_SetResult(), Tcl_SetStringResult(), Tcl_GetErrorLine() Examples: @@ -1980,10 +1980,10 @@ void tcl_run( trace = (char *)Tcl_GetVar(interp, "errorInfo", 0); if (trace == NULL) - trace = interp->result; + trace = Tcl_GetStringResult(interp); fprintf(stderr, "%s: TCL error @ line %d: %s\n", - script, interp->errorLine, trace); + script, Tcl_GetErrorLine(interp), trace); } Tcl_DeleteInterp(interp); Some more little facts: * Please link against libtcl.so and libtk.so instead of libtcl8.6.so and libtk8.6. * Version 8.6 supports pkg-config * Version 8.6 is subslotted.
One additional note: application-specific initialization failed: package not known invalid command name "auto_mkindex_parser::command" This comes from a broken dev-lang/tcl-8.6.0. Revision 1 is fixed.
(In reply to comment #1) > One additional note: > > application-specific initialization failed: package not known > invalid command name "auto_mkindex_parser::command" > > > This comes from a broken dev-lang/tcl-8.6.0. Revision 1 is fixed. my way is from bug 154 - 360 to here, but sorry to say - i dont see that -r1 is fixing this problem. At least the 360 bug (opencascade) still ends at the same place.
I'm not seeing how packages that misuse Tcl APIs (e.g dev-lang/gnu-smalltalk) are halting stabilization of Tcl. I've already done due diligence on bug 492710 and got something in motion there, but in my research I didn't find problems with Tcl itself building. There is a QA bug (bug #554260) regarding manpage/library permissions, which I've added to Depends-On. It should be a simple fix (find out when/where it installs manpages and alter accordingly), but it's a legitimate blocker.
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