Re: Supporting tcl 8.6

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Supporting tcl 8.6
Date: 2014-05-10 16:07:54
Message-ID: 20140510160754.GA26737@msgid.df7cb.de
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Re: Tom Lane 2014-05-10 <27409(dot)1399729811(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> > the current tcl version is 8.6, and configure should recognize it. The
> > attached patch has been in the Debian/Ubuntu packages for a while, so
> > it's tested.
>
> While that patch looks harmless enough, I'm curious why you'd need it
> --- isn't tcl installed as plain "tclsh"?

That's what I thought, but at least at the beginning of the year,
Ubuntu's then-development 14.04 suite didn't have tclsh, but only
tclsh8.6. It was surprising, but easy enough to fix, hence the patch.

Thanks for applying! (And sorry for the last-minute submission, but
better now than later...)

Christoph
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