[Starkit] genkit
Jean-Claude Wippler
jcw at equi4.com
Sun Nov 13 18:40:19 CET 2005
Hello,
I've made some changes to genkit (moved the previous to /pub/tk/tars/
genkit.prev).
See http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html which points to some new
documentation pages - the main change is that the "sh genkit B" step
should be replaced by "sh genkit B all" to build more tclkit variants.
There are also some undocumented features:
1) genkit should now be usable for both 8.4 and 8.5 builds:
for 8.4, use: sh genkitnew ...
for 8.5, use: KIT_VERSION=5 sh genkitnew ...
you have to do this for all the commands: genkit A, B, etc.
(don't mix 'em, use one dir for 8.4 and another for 8.5 builds)
2) Tclkit Lite, the build which requires no C++, can be built using:
tclsh genkit B tcl
sh genkit B all
sh genkit D lite
sh genkit E lite
The latest revision of SDX (2005/11/13 17:28:49 34537-16353) is
able to
wrap starkits *even* with Tclkit Lite (no starpacks yet, bit more
work).
Several tweaks have been made to try and make genkit work out of the
box on still more platforms. With thanks to Pat Thoyts and David
Zolli for sharing their improvements.
I've done a bunch of tests and builds with this latest genkit, and so
far it appears to be working fine. Am not yet collecting new
binaries, but please follow-up with your success/failure experiences
on this mailing list if you decide to take this for a spin.
It is my intention to use the new build process for Tcl/Tk 8.4.12 and
8.5-whatever-comes-next. Whenever that is. The more we hammer on
genkit, the better it can become for future generations of tclkit-
builders :)
-jcw
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