tcl 8.5 alpha in fedora 7?

[Michael Thomas]

Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:
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> Michael Thomas wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Jean-Luc Fontaine <jfontain <at> free.fr> writes:
>>>> Well, then there's gonna be a big problem with blt (now in extras, a
>>>> graphical library) which is far from ready to compile against
>>>> tcl-8.5,
>>> The strange thing is that it doesn't show up in the "broken
>>> dependencies" list, so RPM thinks the version built against 8.4 is
>>> still going to run (there's no dependency on the versioned soname).
>>> I don't know whether that's true.
>> It's likely compiled against the Tcl stubs library,
> blt certainly is not: would you be willing to try to make it work?
> (like I mentioned before, I cannot do it).
> But be advised that the blt CVS does not even compile...

Yes, I'm willing to work on it.  I maintain almost 20 other Tcl 
extensions, so I wouldn't be surprised to run into the same problems in 
multiple places.

--Wart