BLT2.1 & Redhat 4.0

[John Eikenberry [MSAI]]

Hello,

I finally found the time to upgrade to swarm 1.0. I figured I'd upgrade my
tcl/tk to a newer version (I can live with the raster bug) at the same
time. I installed the Tcl7.5/Tk4.1 off the redhat 4.0 cd. I then tried to
compile BLT and libtclobjc-1.1b6 and found out that I was missing
/usr/lib/libtcl.a and libtk.a. I checked and this was included in
tcl7.4/Tk4.0 on redhat 3.0.3 and that it was still missing from
Tcl7.6/tk4.2 on redhat 4.1 (I grabed them off the ftp site). 

Has anyone been able to compile these programs on a redhat 4.0+ linux 
machine. I can go back to tcl7.4/tk4.0 or compile them from sources 
myself, this just seems odd. Anyone have any ideas why this is? (Is the 
*.a lib format becoming obsolete?)

Sorry this is so off topic. My next mail will be about GPing. I am 
thinking that my research may come close to being GP... but I'll explain 
next time.

John Eikenberry
address@hidden
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