Problem with libtcl8.3 on FBSD 5.1

[Lowell Gilbert]

soneill <soneill at netaxs.com> writes:

> On 4 Oct 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I thought that might be the problem, too, so I uninstalled the package, then
> built the port of tcl8.3. It didn't make any difference; the libtcl8.3
> library still had the undefined symbol. 

I would have expected that you would need to rebuild the libtcl port...

> There's something odder happening here; a check inside the libraries for
> tcl8.0, 8.2, and 8.4 all show that "__xuname" is a symbol in all of them.
> Since it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere, I'm stumped as to how to
> proceed to get around this problem. Is anyone else having this problem
> running tcl/tk programs of _any_ recent vintage?

For what it's worth, I'm not.