Problem with libtcl8.3 on FBSD 5.1

[Lowell Gilbert]

soneill <soneill at netaxs.com> writes:

> I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Athlon-based machine, and most
> everything seems to be working ok. However, I have a problem trying to run
> any s/w that uses the Tcl library libtcl8.3.so.1. Whenver I run such a
> program, including wish8.3, tkdesk, tkman and others, I get the following
> error message:
> 
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libtcl83.so.1: Undefined \
> symbol "__xuname"
> 
> I have no idea why I would have such an undefined symbol in an officially
> ported FBSD package. Can anyone give me some insight into this problem, and
> a possible solution? TIA for any help you can give me.

Best guess would be that you installed from packages rather than
ports, and the packages were in some way mismatched.  Installing
software from ports avoids this risk, but with packages you should be
able to get them all from one place and have it work.