From: "Heppler, J. Scott" <shep971@spectrum.net>
Subject: Re: tk 8.5 conflicts with tk 8.6 xorriso-tcltk
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:12:12 -0700

I was looking to test xorriso-tcltk with 8.6 but a new install on my
test box still pulls 8.5.  In Debian 13/ArchLinux, 8.6 is used and I
have not seen nor heard of any issues.  Looking at Arch build scripts,
it did not seem to require any special handling to transition.

Thanks

On Sep 10, 2025: 14:33, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've yet to try it with 8.6, though I see no reason not to give it a go.
>
>There is a new version (1.5.6) that has no significant changes wrt Tcl/Tk.
>
>Here's a patch/suggestion that fixes a couple of things.
>
>--- /usr/ports//sysutils/libisoburn/Makefile    Thu Oct  5 10:53:18 2023
>+++ ./Makefile  Wed Sep 10 10:14:18 2025
>@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> 
> CATEGORIES =   sysutils
> 
>-HOMEPAGE =     https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/web/wikis/Libisoburn
>+HOMEPAGE =     https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/web/wiki/Libisoburn
> SITES =                http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/
> 
> # GPLv2+
>@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> WANTLIB-main =         burn curses iconv isofs pthread readline z
> LIB_DEPENDS-xorriso =  ${BASE_PKGPATH},-main
> WANTLIB-xorriso =      ${WANTLIB-main} c isoburn
>-RUN_DEPENDS-tcltk =    ${MODTCL_RUN_DEPENDS}
>+RUN_DEPENDS-tcltk =    ${MODTK_RUN_DEPENDS}
> 
> CONFIGURE_STYLE =      gnu
> CONFIGURE_ARGS =       --enable-pkg-check-modules
>@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>                        LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib ${LDFLAGS}"
> 
> post-patch:
>-       perl -pi -e 's#/usr/bin/wish#${MODTK_BIN}#' ${WRKSRC}/frontend/xorriso-tcltk
>-#      @${MODTCL_WISH_ADJ} ${WRKSRC}/frontend/xorriso-tcltk
>+       # MODTCL_WISH_ADJ doesn't handle trailing space.
>+       perl -pi -e '$$. == 1 && s#/usr/bin/wish #${MODTK_BIN}#' ${WRKSRC}/frontend/xorriso-tcltk
> 
> .include <bsd.port.mk>
>
>
>
>Stu
>
>
>On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 03:52:05 a.m. EDT, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>cc'ing stu@ (maintainer for Tcl/Tk)
>
>On 2025/09/09 14:54, Heppler, J. Scott wrote:
>> The optical disk burner front end, xorriso-tcltk needs a tk shell
>> providing /usr/local/bin/wish and the present Makefile lists
>> Run dependencies
>
>I don't see the conflict?
>
>$ pkg_info|grep -e ^tk -e ^tcl
>tcl-8.5.19p6        Tool Command Language
>tcl-8.6.16          Tool Command Language
>tk-8.5.19p2        graphical toolkit for Tcl
>tk-8.6.16          graphical toolkit for Tcl
>
>Our Tcl/Tk packages only provide binaries which include version numbers,
>there's no package providing /usr/local/bin/wish, and other ports use
>patches/sed/.. to set #! lines correctly. That's done for xorriso-tcltk:
>
>$ head -1 /usr/local/bin/xorriso-tcltk
>#!/usr/local/bin/wish8.5
>
>>    tcl->=8.5,<8.6:lang/tcl/8.5
>>
>> cad/opencascade is dependent on tcl/8.6
>>
>> Would anyone have objections to upgrading the tcl/tk version to 8.6 in
>> xorriso-tcltk?
>
>unless there's a special reason for using a different Tcl/Tk version
>(i.e. some software requires a newer or older version), the normal
>approach in ports is to use the default version specified in
>lang/tcl/tcl.port.mk / x11/tk/tk.port.mk. I wonder if we're anywhere
>near flipping the default to 8.6 though..
>

-- 
J. Scott Heppler

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