This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
needed, as he discovered when he tried to run vi. :-]
These files used to be stubs which used #ifdef PIC to decide whether to
use the real dlopen() version or the stub version from the src/contrib/tcl
sources. Now, with the our stubs gone, the .PATH directive causes them to
be compiled directly from src/contrib/tcl/{unix,generic}. You might need
to rebuild your depend rules though as they may have stale paths.
Also, this is a generated file. This should not have been edited here.
No changes other than "instructions" for what other tools that use this
.. "interesting" .. system should name their shared libraries. This was
broken for some tools (eg: expect-5.21) even for the native tcl build (ie,
it would end up using libexpect521.so, not libexpect521.so.1.0)
Peter Wemm
Jordan K. Hubbard
Masafumi Max NAKANE
Wolfram Schneider
Bruce Evans
Poul-Henning Kamp
Chuck Robey