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Bug 120133

Summary: dev-lang/{tcl,tk} fails to ./configure, invalid package name
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jaak Ristioja <jaak>
Component: New packagesAssignee: TCL/TK Project <tcltk>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: vapier
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-23 21:35:07 UTC
dev-lang/tk-8.4.11-r1

configure: error: tcl: invalid feature name

I guess this is related to such checks in ./configure:

if test -n "`echo $ac_feature| sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]//g'`"; then

These will not work correctly with Estonian locales (et_EE), because the Estonian alphabet does not end with Z, but with Y:

abcdefghijklmnopqrs
Comment 1 Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-23 21:35:07 UTC
dev-lang/tk-8.4.11-r1

configure: error: tcl: invalid feature name

I guess this is related to such checks in ./configure:

if test -n "`echo $ac_feature| sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]//g'`"; then

These will not work correctly with Estonian locales (et_EE), because the Estonian alphabet does not end with Z, but with Y:

abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwõäöüxy

Therefore some common English letters like tuvwxy do not fall into the range a-z. To circumvent this, one must set another locale in /etc/env.d/02locales, run "env-update" and "source /etc/profile". Using something like "LC_ALL=C emerge tk" won't work.
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-01-24 00:04:34 UTC
*** Bug 120134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2006-02-02 17:32:46 UTC
it's because the package is using old autotools (2.13)

applied the patch used in gcc to 8.4.9 and 8.4.11 ebuilds