Re: Build fails for pl/tcl on OpenBSD

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Hentosh <hentosh@io.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-07T22:08:50Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
> Yes, we deliberately build the Tcl and Perl interfaces and PL modules
> with those systems' preferred compilers and switches, and have done so
> since PG 7.0 (at least, maybe earlier).  IIRC, this was forced by the
> observation that the other way didn't work.
> 
> Curious that so many people are complaining of pl/tcl failures now,
> when there were almost no such reports for 7.0.  AFAIK, 7.0 should have
> been equally vulnerable.  Perhaps someone has just recently started
> distributing Tcl packages containing bogus tclConfig information?

The cause for me was my misconfiguration during a reinstall of tcl 8.0.5.

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