Re: pltcl -- solved

Hi Tom,
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:42:24 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pltcl -- solved
>
> ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr writes:
> > Just a note that pltcl is now passing regression tests on Unixware.
> > For some unexplained reason, it did'nt pass with tcl-8.5 but is ok with
> > tcl -8.4.13.
>
> AFAICT there is no "tcl 8.5" yet; there is an alpha release tcl8.5a4
> which is stated to still be under active feature development.
Yes
> I installed it locally and pltcl seems to work OK with it, so I'm not
> sure what problem you saw. One possibility is that the Tcl folk
> recommend against building extensions with a different compiler than
> was used to build Tcl ... so if you tried to build pltcl with gcc
> against a Tcl compiled with Unixware cc, or vice versa, that might be
> the core of the problem.
It's not the case.
>
> Anyway I'm not too concerned about misbehavior with an alpha Tcl release
> --- it's as likely to be their bug as ours.
>
I agree, I'll test it again when tcl 8.5 is out...
> regards, tom lane
>
Best regards
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