On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:40:56AM +0200, Alain Degreffe wrote:
> Package: tcl8.4
> Version: 8.4.9-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The  forking mechanism  is broken  in all  tcl version  compiled with.
> threads  This is  well known  for  a long  time. Upstream  Maintainer.
> should fix that but in the meantime the most secure way is to use Tcl.
> without threads Package like expect depend of that and will be unable.
> to  use  fork  command.  this  is a  serious  limitation.  After  the.
> dist-upgrade all my scripts are now broken                           .
>

At the same time, other apps requires --enable-threads and works, e.g.  
aolserver4 
I would split the package in two different pkgs with and without
threading.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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