Hi Helmut, On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 6:51 PM Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Source: tk9.1 > Version: 9.1.0-2 > Severity: important > Justification: it is expected that tk9.1 enters the bootstrap set > Tags: patch upstream > User: [email protected] > Usertags: ftcbfs > > tk9.1 fails to cross build from source. On the surface, it fails to find > harfbuzz. Underneath, unix/configure.ac hard codes the build > architecture pkg-config in a lot of places. I suggest rewriting it to > use PKG_CHECK_MODULES. As that macro uses AC_REQUIRE it should not be > used inside an if condition, so I am also replacing a pile of those by > AS_IF. The macro also carries out the version check on harfbuzz, so this > ends up deleting a pile of code. I hope you find this refactoring > acceptable. Please forward it upstream. Also please apply it to the > Debian package before making tk9.1 the default version in Debian.
Thank you for the bug report. I'll apply the patch and forward it upstream. Tcl/Tk 9.1 is not going to be a default Tcl/Tk version in Debian at least until duke. There's not many software developers that have ported their programs to Tcl/Tk 9 yet. Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan
