Dependency or a port on private header files of Tcl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
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>> I have certain doubts that there are serious build problems in other packages, when the private header files are installed.
> 
> on 2005-07-01 olegb committed a change to install the private headers (ticket #3777), on 2005-07-21 this was changed back.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no ticket number in the r13165 commit log, so a quick look doesn't show exactly what the build problems were.
> 
> IIRC the private includes were installed into a normal search directory and some configure script found one or more of them.

Incidentally, the expect port is an example you can use to pull the already downloaded tcl source and have your build use its private headers.
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