[Xotcl] Re: Bug: configure step chooses wrong tclsh [REASONING]

Jeff Hobbs jeffh at ActiveState.com
Sat Apr 10 22:54:36 CEST 2004


Gustaf Neumann wrote:
>    - Jeffs suggestion was to use the TEA_* macros instead of the
>      stuff we use currently. I was not aware of these new TEA macros.
>      the sample extension (sampleextension-0.2) in http://www.tcl.tk/doc/tea/
>      contains only SC_* macros, and no TEA_ at all. the same is with tcl8.4.6
>         find tcl8.4.6 -type f | xargs fgrep TEA_
>      On the other hadm it still uses SC_PROG_TCLSH, determined by
>         find tcl8.4.6 -type f | xargs fgrep PROG_TCLSH
> 
>      By googling around, i found
>      http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tcl/sampleextension/configure.in?rev=1.37
>      which is quite different from the macros. 
> 
>      so... i come to think that SC_PROG_TCLSH is currently the way to go,
>      but TEA2 will at some time do everything better with new TEA_* macros

Actually the sampleextension-0.2 is years old, and I should remove
the entire www.tcl.tk/doc/tea/ area, since I haven't had time to
correct the old docs.  Most major extension all use TEA2 now (some
use TEA3 in fact, which is relatively recent).  SC_PROG_TCLSH is NOT
the way to go.  Note that the core does not use TEA (Tcl Extension
Architecture) because it is not an extension.

-- 
     Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
     http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos



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