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1. Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v6.4 BETA2 ...

   Billy G. Allie <bill.allie@mug.org> — 1998-10-14T02:11:15Z

   I will be posting a configure.in tonight with further clean ups to the TCL/TK 
   configuration.  TCL/TK compile information will now be obtained from the 
   tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, without having to have a list of different 
   versions of TCL and TK to search for.
   
   Two item I would like to bring up for discussion is:
   
   1.  Currently TCL/TK support is disabled if TCL is present, but TK is not. This
       is not a good thing because the PL/tcl language is only dependant on TCL,
       not TK.  Also pgtclsh only requires TCL.  I propose changing configure so
       that TCL and TK support are seperate and the TCL dependant parts of the
       postgreSQL distribution will still build even if TK is not present.
   
   2.  There is currently duplicate Makefile.tcldefs.  I propose create a
       Makefile.tcldefs and Makefile.tkdefs at the same directory level as
       Makefile.global and have any Makefile that needs them include them from
       that location.  This would then become the 'standard' for compiling TCL
       and TK based packages in the postgreSQL distribution.
   
   Any comments and/or concerns?
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2. Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v6.4 BETA2 ...

   Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-10-14T02:43:43Z

   > I will be posting a configure.in tonight with further clean ups to the TCL/TK 
   > configuration.  TCL/TK compile information will now be obtained from the 
   > tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, without having to have a list of different 
   > versions of TCL and TK to search for.
   > 
   > Two item I would like to bring up for discussion is:
   > 
   > 1.  Currently TCL/TK support is disabled if TCL is present, but TK is not. This
   >     is not a good thing because the PL/tcl language is only dependant on TCL,
   >     not TK.  Also pgtclsh only requires TCL.  I propose changing configure so
   >     that TCL and TK support are seperate and the TCL dependant parts of the
   >     postgreSQL distribution will still build even if TK is not present.
   > 
   > 2.  There is currently duplicate Makefile.tcldefs.  I propose create a
   >     Makefile.tcldefs and Makefile.tkdefs at the same directory level as
   >     Makefile.global and have any Makefile that needs them include them from
   >     that location.  This would then become the 'standard' for compiling TCL
   >     and TK based packages in the postgreSQL distribution.
   > 
   > Any comments and/or concerns?
   
   Be aware I removed the TCL_LIB, ... stuff from configure.in this
   morning.  That was the old stuff, and your new stuff made it
   unnecessary.
   
   
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3. Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v6.4 BETA2 ...

   Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-10-14T03:18:32Z

   On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Billy G. Allie wrote:
   
   > I will be posting a configure.in tonight with further clean ups to the TCL/TK 
   > configuration.  TCL/TK compile information will now be obtained from the 
   > tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, without having to have a list of different 
   > versions of TCL and TK to search for.
   > 
   > Two item I would like to bring up for discussion is:
   > 
   > 1.  Currently TCL/TK support is disabled if TCL is present, but TK is not. This
   >     is not a good thing because the PL/tcl language is only dependant on TCL,
   >     not TK.  Also pgtclsh only requires TCL.  I propose changing configure so
   >     that TCL and TK support are seperate and the TCL dependant parts of the
   >     postgreSQL distribution will still build even if TK is not present.
   > 
   > 2.  There is currently duplicate Makefile.tcldefs.  I propose create a
   >     Makefile.tcldefs and Makefile.tkdefs at the same directory level as
   >     Makefile.global and have any Makefile that needs them include them from
   >     that location.  This would then become the 'standard' for compiling TCL
   >     and TK based packages in the postgreSQL distribution.
   > 
   > Any comments and/or concerns?
   > -- 
   
   	These changes sound great for post-v6.4...
   
   Marc G. Fournier                               scrappy@hub.org
   Systems Administrator @ hub.org                    
   scrappy@{postgresql|isc}.org                       ICQ#7615664
   
   
   

4. Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v6.4 BETA2 ...

   Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.nmsu.edu> — 1998-10-14T14:44:53Z

      I will be posting a configure.in tonight with further clean ups to the TCL/TK 
      configuration.  TCL/TK compile information will now be obtained from the 
      tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, without having to have a list of different 
      versions of TCL and TK to search for.
   
   These ideas sound great, but I don't understand one thing.
   
   How do you locate the *Config.sh scripts without looking in a bunch of
   directories until you find them?
   
   Unless there is a general means of finding these which 1) doesn't
   involve checking directories associated with different versions of
   tcl/tk, and 2) does allow for the possibility that tcl/tk may not be
   installed in a particular filesystem (/usr/local, for example), I
   strongly recommend keeping the part of configure that searches for the
   location of tcl/tk.  Perhaps we don't need to store the location of
   include/library files based on the configure script, but I think we do
   need to use essentially the same mechanism to find the *Config.sh
   scripts.
   
   Cheers,
   Brook