Re: Impact of updating to tcl/tk 8.5.12, tcl-expect 5.45 with 7 proposed patch sets

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 8/19/2012 21:13, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:22:23PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> > databases/tcl-gdbm:  still broken
> > print/tcl-pdflib:    still broken
> > lang/tcl-otcl:       still broken, breaks 3 packages
> >     net/ns
> >     net/nam
> >     devel/tcl-tclcl
> > tcl-itcl:            still broken, breaks 1 packages
> >     sysutils/tkdesk
> > tcl-itcl-current:    still broken, breaks 1 packages
> >     cad/tnt-mmtl
> > x11/tk-Tix:          still broken, breaks 1 packages
> >     net/nocol
>
> What kind of errors do you see when building the with tcl/tk-85?

Undefined constants, function prototypes that changed, typedefs that 
changed, etc.  If somebody want to patch them you could probably get it 
to support tcl85.  I suspect it is more trouble that it is worth for 
some of these on the list.

John