[Mageia-discuss] perl with Inline C

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:31:37 pm Juergen Harms wrote:
> I had a difficulty with making a Perl-Tk application work in Mageia -
> the build failed with the message "missing tcl.h". To make it work, I
> had to install tcllib-devel.
> 
> That was not necessary under Mandriva, and does not make sense: if you
> use Perl-Tk rather than Tcl-Tk you precisely want to get rid of tcl,
> Perl-Tk should be independant from Tcl - is this (a low-priority) bug?
> 
If it needs tcl.h, then it needs tcl-devel.  The bug (if any) must be higher 
up.

Doug.