Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:00:06 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@james.hwcn.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com Subject: Re: how many tk version do oyu need... Message-ID: <199802221900.UAA04874@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980222124319.16665A-100000@james.hwcn.org> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Feb 22, 98 12:50:13 pm
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> Where it does involve patches, you are encouraged to submit your > patches to the author. If it doesn't work under FreeBSD with the > standard Tcl/Tk that FreeBSD uses, it's a porting problem. Just > as if a port uses gmake instead of pmake. Sometimes it's easiest > for us to correctly fix the problem with patches, sometimes it's > easier to load an emulation module (gmake, in the last example). yes i know, i just wanted to point out the problem since yesterday compiling 3 ports i got tk8, tk42 and tk41 in a row, and i am not sure people was following a strategy on this. unlike make/gmake, the bloat with tk is very large since it installs a ton of files, and emulation is not really a ppossibility (or, at least, unless tk has a backward compatible mode... but i doubt it.. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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