On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, Chris Billington wrote:

> The present databases/sqlite3-tcl port is built with MODTCL_VERSION = 8.6,
> producing /usr/local/lib/tcl/sqlite3/libsqlite3513.so


Here is one way as a separate port.
It has a run dep on the Tcl 8 version.
The Tcl 8 version supplies all the files and here only the .so.
This has the upside of leaving the current sqlite3-tcl port untouched, but 
a downside that this is a copy of another port, with minor changes - a 
future maintenance headache, and all for just one file.


$ cd /usr/ports/databases && cp -a sqlite3-tcl sqlite3-tcl9

Then apply the patch, build, test, etc.


Stu


diff -Nurp /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3-tcl/Makefile ./Makefile
--- /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3-tcl/Makefile	Thu May 14 22:51:47 2026
+++ ./Makefile	Thu Jun 11 07:46:34 2026
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-COMMENT =		Tcl bindings for SQLite3
+COMMENT =		Tcl9 bindings for SQLite3
 
 V =			3.53.0
 
 DISTNAME =		sqlite${V}
-PKGNAME =		sqlite3-tcl-${V}
+PKGNAME =		sqlite3-tcl9-${V}
 
 CATEGORIES =		databases
 HOMEPAGE =		https://cyqlite.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/sqlite/home
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ SITES =			${SITE_SOURCEFORGE:=tcl/}
 DISTFILES =		tclsqlite{sqlite}${V}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
 
 MODULES =		lang/tcl
-MODTCL_VERSION =	8.6
+MODTCL_VERSION =	9
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS =		${MODTCL_BUILD_DEPENDS}
-RUN_DEPENDS =		${MODTCL_RUN_DEPENDS}
+RUN_DEPENDS =		${MODTCL_RUN_DEPENDS} \
+			databases/sqlite3-tcl
 
 FAKE_FLAGS =		PKG_DIR=sqlite3
 SEPARATE_BUILD =	Yes
@@ -45,5 +46,9 @@ VER =			${V:S/.//g}
 
 pre-configure:
 	@${MODTCL_TCLSH_ADJ} ${WRKSRC}/compat/sqlite3/spaceanal.tcl
+
+do-install:
+	${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${DESTDIR}${MODTCL_TCLDIR}/sqlite3
+	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKBUILD}/libtcl9sqlite${VER}.so ${DESTDIR}${MODTCL_TCLDIR}/sqlite3/
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff -Nurp /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3-tcl/pkg/PLIST ./pkg/PLIST
--- /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3-tcl/pkg/PLIST	Wed Nov 19 15:31:24 2025
+++ ./pkg/PLIST	Thu Jun 11 07:38:35 2026
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
 @pkgpath databases/sqlite3,-tcl
-lib/tcl/sqlite3/
-@so lib/tcl/sqlite3/libsqlite${VER}.so
-lib/tcl/sqlite3/pkgIndex.tcl
-@man man/mann/sqlite3.n
-share/examples/sqlite3-tcl/
-share/examples/sqlite3-tcl/sqlite3_analyzer
+@so lib/tcl/sqlite3/libtcl9sqlite${VER}.so