Tcl Source Code

In unix/tcl.m4 the setting of LD_SEARCH_FLAG for SunOS
5.6 is 
incorrect if  gcc is not being used. The problem is
resolved for
5.7 and 5.8, but was not implemented for 5.6 and below.

Heres the Patch:

diff -rc tcl8.3.3-orig/unix/tcl.m4 tcl8.3.3/unix/tcl.m4
*** tcl8.3.3-orig/unix/tcl.m4Fri Apr  6 12:51:46 2001
--- tcl8.3.3/unix/tcl.m4Mon Aug  6 18:57:26 2001
***************
1042
      DL_OBJS="tclLoadDl.o"
      DL_LIBS="-ldl"
      LDFLAGS=""
!     LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-Wl,-R,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
      ;;
  SunOS-5*)
      SHLIB_CFLAGS="-KPIC"
--- 1036,1046 ----
      DL_OBJS="tclLoadDl.o"
      DL_LIBS="-ldl"
      LDFLAGS=""
!     if test "$using_gcc" = "yes" ; then
!     LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-Wl,-R,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
!     else
! LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-R ${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
!     fi
      ;;
  SunOS-5*)
      SHLIB_CFLAGS="-KPIC"

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cc  tclAppInit.o -L/export/home/jeffh/build/tcl84a4 -
ltcl8.4 -ldl  -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lc \
        -Wl,-R,/home/jeffh/install/solaris-sparc/lib -o 
tclsh
sparky [~/build/tcl84a4] 27 > which cc
/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
sparky [~/build/tcl84a4] 28 > uname -a
SunOS sparky 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-
5_10

and most notably:

sparky [~/build/tcl84a4] 31 > ldd -s ./tclsh

   find library=libtcl8.4.so; required by ./tclsh
    search path=/home/jeffh/install/solaris-sparc/lib  
(RPATH from file ./tclsh)
    trying path=/home/jeffh/install/solaris-
sparc/lib/libtcl8.4.so
    search path=/usr/lib  (default)
    trying path=/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
        libtcl8.4.so =>  (file not found)

Shows that Solaris cc does pick up the file regardless.  
The patch seems OK, but if it just unnecessarily 
complicates things, why apply it?

File Added - 9311: tcl8.3.3-pah.src.patch