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Artifact ID: fd539bd8427f18274ee9f3b8cc2d78d2824a71f9
Ticket: ed982d0ec0dd95311df3e00bca079174006fc82f
Failed tclsh link on AIX.
User & Date: anonymous 2015-02-27 02:12:23
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  1. icomment:
    I have not tried to build tcl/tk with out setting LD equal to ld.
    I have never set LD=gcc.  As far as I know gcc calls ld to do any kind 
    of linking.  I do not have the GNU ld installed on my system.  I only
    have IBM ld installed on my system.
    
    The problem that I experience was that either configure/gmake was
    causing an incorrect -L and -l specification to be generated.
    From the information I got by reading the man pages for ld
    -L is used to specify a directory where libraries and .so files
    can be found.  The -l specifies a name of a particular library.
    
    During the gmake run a -l specification is being used to define
    a .so file and not a library.  Thus when ld tried to find the 
    library it is unable to do so and is thus unable to complete the
    link operation.
    
    All I did was to change the command to put the correct library
    name in the -l specification and to add the correct .so file to the
    command.
    That is; I changed -ltcl8.6 to -ltclstub8.6
    and libtclstub8.6.a to libtcl8.6.so.
    (If tclstub8.6 should really be tcl8.6 then there are other
    problem in the configure/gmake output.)
    
    The correction to the tk gmake run is the same except that
    the tk gmake also requires that the correct tcl changes also
    be added to the command.
    
    Bye,
    Dwight
    
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