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Package: emacspeak
Version: 24-1
Severity: normal
emacspeak depends on tclx8.3 whereas tclx8.4 exists in Debian as
well. I for example have tcl8.3, tcl8.4 and tclx8.3 on my box and
would like to remove tcl8.3/tclx8.3 and use the newer tcl8.4/tclx8.4
instead.
AFAICS emacspeak always uses '/usr/bin/tcl' in the shebang line and
does not depend on a specific version itself. It would be great if
the emacspeak package in Debian would use and depend on the current
tcl[x] version.
regards,
-mika-
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> emacspeak depends on tclx8.3 whereas tclx8.4 exists in Debian as
> well. I for example have tcl8.3, tcl8.4 and tclx8.3 on my box and
> would like to remove tcl8.3/tclx8.3 and use the newer tcl8.4/tclx8.4
> instead.
>
> AFAICS emacspeak always uses '/usr/bin/tcl' in the shebang line and
> does not depend on a specific version itself. It would be great if
> the emacspeak package in Debian would use and depend on the current
> tcl[x] version.
Unfortunately tclx8.4 will not support emacspeak.
emacspeak requires the shell /usr/bin/tcl, as you note. Confusingly,
the tcl shell is supplied not by the tcl package but by tclx. Or,
rather, it was supplied by tclx8.3 but unfortunately not by tclx8.4:
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/aa$ dpkg -L tclx8.3|grep bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/tcl8.3
/usr/lib/tclX8.3/help/tcl/strings/binary
/usr/lib/tclX8.3/help/tcl/libraries/loadlibindex
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/aa$ dpkg -L tclx8.4|grep bin
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/aa$
Various other approaches have been suggested, e.g.
#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.4
load libtclx8.4.so.1
or
#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.4
package require Tclx
but I have not gotten any of them to work. The emacspeak speech
server segfaults after the first utterance, at a "select" command
(which is one of the features added by tclx).
See the thread on "need for /usr/bin/tcl" in the list
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- Jim Van Zandt
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