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

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                    
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