From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Why do we ship tcl again? (was: Re: [PATCH] Core Update 166:
 Perform spring clean of orphaned files)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:49:45 +0100
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Hello,

> On 3 Apr 2022, at 15:49, Peter M=C3=BCller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wro=
te:
>=20
> Hello Michael,
> hello *,
>=20
> looking at
>=20
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.4/platform-1.0.14.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.4/platform-1.0.15.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.5/msgcat-1.6.0.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.5/tcltest-2.4.0.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.6/http-2.8.9.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.6/tdbc/sqlite3-1.0.4.tm \
>>> +	/usr/lib/tcl8/8.6/tdbc/sqlite3-1.1.2.tm \
>>=20
>> Why do we even ship tcl? Is anything reliant on this?
>=20
> in particular and the tcl rootfile in general, I would like to bring your q=
uestion up again.

TCL is required at build time for various packages. However, at runtime there=
 is one:

root(a)michael:/build/ipfire-2.x# grep -r "^#\!.*tcl" build
build/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch_dispatcher:#!/usr/bin/tclsh
grep: build/usr/share/misc/magic.mgc: binary file matches

That means we will need to ship tcl.

> This is especially because the current tcl rootfile ships file I definitely=
 expect in the
> sqlite territory, not here:
>=20
>> #usr/lib/sqlite3.36.0
>> usr/lib/sqlite3.36.0/libsqlite3.36.0.so
>> usr/lib/sqlite3.36.0/pkgIndex.tcl

Since that script is not using sqlite, you can disable building both modules.

> To my understanding, this makes it hard to understand if the sqlite version=
 carried out
> via tcl takes precedence, or if the _actual_ sqlite version is effective.

They serve different purposes.

> Unless anybody has an idea why we actually need to ship tcl, I would like t=
o try out what
> happens if we don't. :-)

See above.

> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter M=C3=BCller

-Michael

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