[oi-dev] tcl and 64-bit modules

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 31/10/2013 14:25, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> On 10/30/2013 17:07, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> It seems our 64-bit tcl don't know where to look for modules. And it is
>> 64-bit by default in /hipster. So, it's broken by default.
>>
>
> More precisely...
> TCL 8.4 searched for 64-bit libraries in /usr/lib/tcl8.4/PKG_NAME/amd64/*.
>
> TCL 8.5 searches for them in /usr/lib/amd64/PKG_NAME/*
> (and also in /usr/lib/tcl8.4/PKG_NAME/*).
> For sqlite/postgresql tcl modules, which are part of oi-userland, I've
> modified pkgIndex.tcl, so that depending on $tcl_platform(wordSize) they
> load either lib.so or amd64/lib.so.
>
> Is it appropriate solution or is it better to ship 64-bit tcl modules in
> /usr/lib/amd64/*/ ?

The last variant seems to be the more common fs layout, see gtk-2.0
as a common example.


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