Re: Snap '92 under Suse Linux

[Marcus Schrattenholzer <1schratt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>]

>    Suse allows for two different versions of tcl/tk in parallel. These 
>    are packaged in
>      tcl-7.6p2-37, tcl_new-8.0.5-12,
>      tk-4.2p2-35, tk_new-8.0.5-12.
>    The older version is the default, and that's the one which xconq
>    configure finds (and which doesn't work).
> 
> Bleah, who did that?  Cygnus' Suse installation doesn't have anything
> unusual about it.  As you can see, whoever made the change changed
> only the lib names, not the associated dirs and files, so the change
> wasn't even useful...

I dont't know exactly what you mean. New and old are in different
packages, have different configuration files (/usr/lib/tclConfig8.0.sh
vs. /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh) different library files etc., therefore the
purpose of being able to use them in parallel is served. Yet, I do not
know who should want this. Anyway, that's the way it is, at least in the
German Suse 6.2 (the current) release.

> Which ones did you change?  Should these changes be in the generic
> sources?

Just replaced tcl.h with tcl8.0.h and tk.h with tk8.0.h in all files
where they occured. This certainly would have to be handled differently
in the generic sources. Maybe it is not worthwhile tweaking all this
just for Suse, but in Germany Suse is by far the most popular
distribution, and it would be a pity if it was not supported. I'd
suggest something, if I knew enough about this autoconf machinery...

Marcus