Tk Source Code

The GNUmakefile does not handle spaces in the path correctly.

I happened to try with:
    /Volumes/VMWare Shared Folders/Users/bll/t/tcl-work/tcl/macosx

Fixed by 1b8a893ded5f2a9b0c70

I don't know that I can fix this.   It needs a complete rewrite.

GNUmakefile changes directory to ../../build/Development, then runs the 
makefile from the original directory.  Which is probably why all that TOP_DIR
stuff is in the unix/Makefile.

This is rather backwards.  Usually staging operations specify a destination
directory for the objects, binaries and libraries.  More of a push operation.

GNUmakefile would need to be rewritten to push the files over to the staging
directories.

Or Makefile.in could be changed to support staging objects, libraries and binaries to alternate directories.  I've seen this with other packages.

I don't think the TOP_DIR is a common method.

I have only looked at the unix/Makefile so far.
WIth the three attached patches, the build works using
 ../unix/configure and make -f Makefile

The main issue seems to be that there a lot of absolute paths in Makefile.in.
Not sure why that was done.  The attached files fix the Tcl build using
 ../unix/configure

I have not yet looked at GNUmakefile (though I know it does not work),
and I assume the same sorts of changes need to be made for Tk.

Assigning this ticket to Jan.
I will look at the Tcl GNUmakefile next.

I can play around with it and see if I get anywhere.

I just noticed that too.  I had "Macintosh HD" in the path.  Probably it
just needs a couple of quotation marks.  Do you think you could provide a
patch?