Bug 25961

Summary:	make xconfig fails looking for wish
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Knecht <markknecht>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark Knecht 2003-08-05 09:36:23 UTC

There are some similar bugs, but they seem to be marked fixed. If my system's 
out of date, then just delete this.

On a pretty much vanilla, up to date Gentoo system running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5, 
make xconfig fails saying it cannot find wish. emerge -s wish doesn't discover 
that it's in dev-lang/tk, so I had to go to the Gentoo-Users reflector.

Request: If installing kernel source is going to install xconfig as a make 
option, then shouldn't tk be a dependency? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /usr/src/linux
2. make xconfig
3.

Actual Results:  
I didn't save them (tk installed now) but basically just a failure saying it 
could not find wish.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-05 19:44:03 UTC

Since tk is not required to build a kernel, it is not a dependency.  They do honor the tcltk USE flag, which will make tk a dependency.  I believe this is the intended behaivior, but I am going to leave this for the x86-kernel team to verify their intentions.

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-21 23:58:36 UTC

I think the intent is that we don't want to pull in X for those who have not yet installed X [for xconfig] or do not want X at all [servers], etc. Maybe we should add the tcltk dependancy to the X flag?

Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-13 12:40:38 UTC

Closing bug: We never really wanted to pull in tcltk support as that would
pull X in, so it was thus commented out in the kernel eclass. Essentially,
ncurses is pulled in and should do the job...