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

> 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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