how many tcl/tk's in 1.8.0?

[Jack Howarth]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:52:33PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 22:41, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
>>   I ported the sparky 3.115 NMR assignment program
>> using the same build approach from fink (where I
>> maintained the package). I am unclear on whether I
>> need to code the Portfile to support more than just
>> builds against tcl/tk 8.5 (which is what MacPorts
>> 1.8.0 installed on my Snow Leopard box). Looking
>> at the MacPorts database, it appears that only a
>> single tcl/tk is available (8.5). Is that correct?
>
> Yes. When 8.5 first came out there was some software that needed 8.4 and 
> we thought about making tcl84 and tk84 ports but the software in  
> question ended up being upgraded to be 8.5-compatible so we dispensed  
> with it and kept just the 8.5 version.
>
>

Fine by me. On fink, the transition from tcl 8.4 to 8.5 has
never happened for i386 or powerpc fink but only on x86_64.
FYI, I was helping them debug an issue with the fink blt
package on tcltk 8.5 yesterday. It looks like the same issue
as http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15095. The proper fix
backported from Fedora 12 is added to the ticket...

http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/15095/blt2.4z-noexactversion.patch

For 64-bit compatibility, the blt package also needs to use
the Fedora 12 patch added here...

http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/15095/blt2.4z-patch-64

I added the last to tbe blt package I maintained in fink and found
the first one yesterday in current Fedora rawhide. FYI.
                        Jack