On May 22, 2007, at 14:56, Mark Duling wrote:

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Get tcl headers by downloading the full tcl from sourceforge instead of a custom tarball on the defunct opendarwin site.

Since your port depends on port:tcl, wouldn't it be better to use the tcl tarball already downloaded by the tcl port, rather than download it again? I believe someone recently posted instructions on how to do that.

If tcl were not already installed it would be better. But what about when the tcl port is already installed? In that case it would still need to be fetched again since those headers aren't installed by the tcl port, and they can't be because of problems it creates.

You may need to extract the tcl tarball again, but you don't need to download it from the tcl web site again. Look at the tcl and tk portfiles. They both set dist_subdir tcltk You could do that in itcl too and then you could pick up the tcl tarball already in that directory. I suppose this would have the side effect of putting the itcl tarball there too. I don't know if there's a way to use different tarballs from (or download different tarballs to) different directories....