Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/23/08 01:07 CST:
> 
>> Thanks for the report. This _must_ be fixed before BLFS-6.3 release,
> 
> It's my opinion that it really isn't an issue.

This is an issue very similar in nature to "rpath pointing to a build 
directory", which, according to Debian policy, is a critical bug, for exactly 
the same reason (injection of arbitrary code if the username matches or if 
someone builds in a subdirectory of /tmp, just by creating files there). But 
you 
are right that it isn't as critical for this script, as TCL_??_SEARCH_FLAGS 
only 
matter when building TCL extensions.

> Apparently you don't have Tcl or Tk installed or you would have
> looked at the two files and seen how well commented they are.
> There is an explanation for each of them.

You are right. But now I have TCL installed according to the book, and even 
looked at Debian's buildscript. Instead of post-processing the installed file, 
they patch unix/tclConfig.sh.in. I will now build TCL according to Ag's 
correction and according to Debian scripts, and compare the results. The test 
will be "tclreadline doesn't fail to build".

BTW, since you made me look into Debian's buildscript, please also see 
http://bugs.debian.org/446335 (TCL-related miscompilation that, according to 
the 
report, manifests itself with the OMNeT++ package from 
http://www.omnetpp.org/). 
I don't know whether it is valid even on Debian, but it caught my eye in the 
Debian changelog.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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