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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:06:13 -0500
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tcltk-20030901-1 packaging bug?
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Why would configure care where I built tcl?  It sounds like a broken
> configure script to me.

It doesn't care where you build tcl, but how/where you configured to
install.

Most configure scripts that "test" for packages that have pkgconfig
style scripts (like tcl's tclConfig.sh) due not actually test anything at
all.  They just invoke the pkgconfig script to retrieve the correct
paths, compilation flags, link flags, etc. for the particular
installation.

tclConfig.sh does not acurately convey those paths for the Cygwin
installation.  It reports those that would be correct for your netrel
installation location.

Does that help?

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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