Bug 7537 – tclx is improperly build rooted

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Bug 7537 - tclx is improperly build rooted

Summary:	tclx is improperly build rooted

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	tcltk (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jens Petersen
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Blocks:	7602
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Reported:	1999-12-03 08:40 EST by Jeff Johnson
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-02-03 15:18:16 EST
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Description Jeff Johnson 1999-12-03 08:40:53 EST

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@redhat.com> 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.

Comment 1 irwin 1999-12-05 11:53:59 EST

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 ${1+"$@"}

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 15:18:59 EST

Applied patch.

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