[RFA] Find init.tcl on cygwin

[Mo DeJong]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:04:16 -0500
Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:

> This has been sitting in my sandbox for a long time.
> 
> Ok to check in?
> 
> cgf
...
>      /* CYGNUS LOCAL */
> -    sprintf(installLib, "share/tcl%s", TCL_VERSION);
> +    sprintf(installLib, "usr/share/tcl%s", TCL_VERSION);
>      /* END CYGNUS LOCAL */


What are the configure flags that you are building with under Cygwin?
Is it something like `.../configure --prefix=/ --datadir=/usr` ?

The reason I am concerned is that a configure like the following:

.../configure --prefix=/usr/mydir ; make ; make install

will install the init.tcl file into /usr/mydir/share/tcl8.3/init.tcl.
With the change you suggest, it seems like the `make install` rule
will still copy the file to the same location but now the TclpInitLibraryPath
function will be looking in /usr/mydir/usr/share/tcl8.3/init.tcl.
Also, this change will make the windows version of `make install`
behave differently from the unix version, and I don't quite follow
why you would want to do that. What is the use case this patch
is intended to fix?

Mo