GPS: Feb 18, 2004 - Steve Offutt and I are working to make Tcl/Tk work well with NetBSD. So far several bugs have been fixed in the HEAD of Tcl and Tk. One bug in particular was an improper Tcl_DecrRefCount that should have failed with all platforms during make test.
Extensions to Tcl/Tk seem to have the same problems as with OpenBSD. The extension developers don't follow the guidelines, so the library flags are wrong when linking. I built BLT 2.4z last night and it doesn't seem to use TCL_LIB_VERSIONS_OK='nodots' properly, so -ltcl8.4 is used rather than -ltcl84 which it should be.
Sadly, pkgsrc seems to have 8.3.4 and points to scriptics (as of Feb 12, 2004). I hope to eventually contribute some patches to pkgsrc to upgrade. On the upside pkgsrc has many useful Tcl/Tk developer tools and some applications.