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The bug I found is in the file ....tclX8.0.4/unix/runtcl.in used by the ./configure command in that same directory Current: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix:@TCL_BUILD@:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} Corrected: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix:@TCL_BUILD@/unix:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} ./configure then uses this file to generate the runtcl script. Without the "/unix" string in the generated runtcl script, the tcl build library cannot be found so the library used instead is the old version of the installed library which in my case (a RedHat 5.2 system) was incompatible. All the best, Alan P.S. for Jeff Johnson <jbj> I found the bug by using the updated rpm-3.0.2-5.x available for RedHat 5.2 to attempt building the tcltk-8.0.5-30 binary package from RH 6.1 tcltk-8.0.5-30.src.rpm. (I am fairly experienced at this general procedure for updating a 5.2 system, and normally it works without problems.) The make terminated with an error message indicating the runtcl command was not working. If I insert /unix as above it works fine. The only way I think a build would work for you without this bugfix is if you already had tcl-8.05 libraries installed. I had the 8.0.3 libraries installed, thus, I found the problem with runtcl.in and the generated runtcl.
This bug was found on 5.2 but should be reported on 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 A patch file that fixes it is --- tcltk-8.0.5/tclX8.0.4/unix/runtcl.in_bad Sun Dec 6 19:47:31 1998 +++ tcltk-8.0.5/tclX8.0.4/unix/runtcl.in Thu Dec 2 18:24:46 1999 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ TCLX_LIBRARY=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix TCL=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix/tcl export TCL_LIBRARY TCLX_LIBRARY -LD_LIBRARY_PATH=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix:@TCL_BUILD@:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} +LD_LIBRARY_PATH=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix:@TCL_BUILD@/unix:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} SHLIB_PATH=@bldbasedir@/tcl/unix:@TCL_BUILD@:${SHLIB_PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH SHLIB_PATH exec $TCL ${1+"$@"}
Applied patch.