Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@[...].com>  writes:

>  In all these changes I have learned to hate autoconf in new ways,
>  and I think it is high time that we extended TEA with the creation
>  of a Tcl script that can build extensions (anything pure Tcl, and
>  possibly simpler C-based ones) without any need for autoconf.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou!  I would love to see this, especially if
it can do C.  I attempt do this in Rivet, but it's a hack, because I
attempt to parse tclConfig.sh, which doesn't always work too well.

As things stand now, I need access to:

TCL_PACKAGE_PATH
TCL_PREFIX
TCL_CC
TCL_CFLAGS_DEBUG
TCL_CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE
TCL_CFLAGS_WARNING
TCL_SHLIB_CFLAGS
TCL_EXTRA_CFLAGS
TCL_THREADED
TCL_LIBS
TCL_SHLIB_LD
TCL_STLIB_LD
TCL_LIB_SPEC

And I would love to help test this new code on real software.

Aside from jenglish's code, Arjen also has a similar tool that stores
information about how to build C (and Fortran) on different platforms
- it's probably worth looking at for ideas.

Thanks,
-- 
David N. Welton
   Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/
     Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/
   Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/


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