Re: TkExtra, a comment

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> The way that .rpm and .deb files would `solve' the toolchain / dynamic linker
> compatibility problems would be to require that users upgrade the inadequate
> pieces (e.g. libc or GCC).
> 

This one bothered me a bit. Since REdhat uses tcl/tk 8.0, and a
Swarm user must use a lot of finesse to install the 7.6/4.2 versions in
/usr/local, I think this approach might be fraught with danger.
Paul Johnson


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