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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: Installing TCL/TK so it can be used for development
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:47:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.124705.21577@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Jul21.000250.14233@twg.com> <ADRIANHO.92Jul21021938@barkley.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.000250.14233@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
- >One of the problems with TCL/TK is there are no `make install' tags
- >in the Makefile's. Therefore there is little guidance as to what the
- >Official Stand on installing things are.
-
- Not to harp, but again, Extended Tcl does have a "make install" capability,
- and we've been careful to minimize the hard-coding of paths within the
- language, and maximize flexibility in terms of letting you have multiple
- copies of Extended Tcl/Tk which each can get to their correct libraries, etc.
-
- A "default file" is defined in extended/Config.mk. This is typically
- /etc/default/tcl6.3b (for the current version) on System V machines,
- and /usr/local/lib/tcldefault6.3b for the rest. This default file is
- loaded on startup (unless a TCLDEFAULT environment variable is defined)
- and it points Tcl to the TclInit.tcl startup file, and sets a Tcl library
- search path, TCLPATH. (the source to all this is in extended/src/tclstartup.c)
-
- FYI, by default we put Tk in /usr/local/lib/tk, Tcl in /usr/local/lib/tcl,
- Extended Tcl (tcl source libraries, on-line help, etc) in /usr/local/tcl.
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