Re: Installed perl-tk-400.202-2; now perl-tk is broken

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

"Howard S. Ostrowsky" <shermo@sb.grci.com> writes:

> I am a longtime Linux (Slackware) user who has recently switched
> to Debian.

Welcome.

> I had been using the versions of Perl and Perl-Tk which are in the
> 1.3 Debian release, and all was working OK.  Then I decided that I
> wanted to upgrade to Perl 5.004 and Perl-Tk 400.202, so I grabbed
> the four perl*.deb files out of hamm and installed them using "dpkg
> -i perl*.deb"

Trouble...

I've tried to fix perl-tk for hamm (compatible with perl 5.004 and
compiled with libc6), but I haven't had any success yet.  The problem
with the version you have is it's compiled for the previous perl
version.  I can get the new pacakge to build, but it segfaults at "use
Tk;" every time.  I've sort of convinced myself it might be a problem
with the mixed (libc5/libc6) X package, but it's a guess.  I'll be
trying again when a fully libc6 version of the X pacakges comes out
(hopefully soon).

Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience
-- 
Rob


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