[GPS]: April 20, 2004 - We now have 8.4.6 of Tcl and Tk in NetBSD's -current [pkgsrc] thanks to Jim Wise.  It works very well so far in the 2.0 beta.

[TclKit] builds in NetBSD, but it fails with '''package require Tk'''.  I managed to fix this via this tiny patch to Tk 8.4.6's Makefile.in (note: I indented 1 space on each line for the Wiki):

 --- Makefile.in.orig    2004-04-20 16:54:47.000000000 -0600
 +++ Makefile.in 2004-04-20 17:10:47.000000000 -0600
 @@ -234,7 +234,10 @@
  # The values of the symbolis normally set by the configure script.
 
  STLIB_LD               = @STLIB_LD@
 -SHLIB_LD               = @SHLIB_LD@
 +SHLIB_LD               = @SHLIB_LD@ 
 +SHLIB_LD               += @XLIBSW@
 +SHLIB_LD               += @LD_SEARCH_FLAGS@
 +
  SHLIB_LD_FLAGS         = @SHLIB_LD_FLAGS@
  SHLIB_LD_LIBS          = @SHLIB_LD_LIBS@
  TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS     = @TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS@

I'll see about getting this into Tk (if a similar isn't waiting (I recall Stu submitted a bug ...)).
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[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.