Bug #3713: Ruby 1.8.6 fails to build against Tk >= 8.5

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: wyhaines (Kirk Haines)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN

[a3li (Alex Legler)]

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Building ruby 1.8.6 with Tk support and an installed Tk version of 8.5 or later results in the following compilation failure:

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -o ../../.ext/i686-linux/tcltklib.so tcltklib.o stubs.o -L. -L../.. -L. -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lruby18 -ltk -ltcl -lX11 -ldl -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc
tcltklib.o: In function ip_make_menu_embeddable': /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p388-r1/work/ruby-1.8.6-p388/ext/tk/tcltklib.c:7849: undefined reference to TkFindMenuReferences'
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p388-r1/work/ruby-1.8.6-p388/ext/tk/tcltklib.c:7876: undefined reference to TkEventuallyRecomputeMenu' /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p388-r1/work/ruby-1.8.6-p388/ext/tk/tcltklib.c:7877: undefined reference to TkEventuallyRedrawMenu'

A comment in our Bugzilla ([0]) suggests that these are internal symbols no longer exported by Tcl 8.5 and later. Ruby 1.8.7 works fine, so I guess there is something to backport to 1.8.6, I just have no idea what.

[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332597#c5
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to wyhaines (Kirk Haines)

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[nagai (Hidetoshi Nagai)]

• File tcltklib.c.diff tcltklib.c.diff added

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backport patch

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[nagai (Hidetoshi Nagai)]

• File tcltklib.c.diff2 tcltklib.c.diff2 added

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I'm very sorry. The previous patch is wrong.
Probably, this patch is right.

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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Tracker changed from Backport to Bug
• Project changed from Backport186 to Ruby master
• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• Backport set to 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN