From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 24 18:10:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12480 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA12417 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 14255 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1998 02:14:03 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 1998 02:14:03 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803250159.UAA02139@bubble.didi.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:14:02 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: (Satoshi Asami) Subject: Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@hub.org, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Mar-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: > * > One other solution is to make a symbolic link from libtcl8.1.so to > > * This is what FreeBSD USED TO do. This was removed, to the point that > > Can you guys stop talking about tcl now? Why? > We've gone through this before many, many times, and the only reason > why we are doing things the way it is now is because we found out (the > hard way, i.e., we tried pretty much everything) that no other method > works for something as large and diverse as the ports collection. Nobody claimed nor hinted that the tcl move on your part was anything but correct. Nevertheless, it broke things that used to work, and that work on a number of other Unix platforms. Some of the people who helped identify and solve this problem are less familiar with FreeBSD and its history on this matter. Others (like myself) break in sweat and get itchy all over every time something in tcl/tk stops working. I belive the issue is clear, and the course of action identified. Rather than shutting us up, maybe you suggest how we avoid the breakage on the next package? I certainly do not know how (in the context of not having {tcl,tk}.h and lib{tcl,tk} where it is normally found). ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message