Tcl and pkgPath

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Nov 20 00:11:35 PST 2011


On 2011-11-20 03:36 , Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> Is there a specific reason that tcl port doesn't have path for
> MacPorts's tcl libraries (macports ports pextlib) in tcl_pkgPath
> variable?
> 
> While using tclsh I added
> TCL_PACKAGE_PATH="${prefix}/share/macports/Tcl" to configure.pre_args
> in order to require package macports rather than using system's tclsh.
> If there aren't cons I'll commit it.

What's the problem with using the system tclsh? Base is never going to
run in anything else, so that's the environment you should test in anyway.

- Josh


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