[Jacob Levy] July 19, 2003: Please report here on your testing of Tcl 8.4.4. It's available by anon CVS now in the sourceforge.net CVS.

To get the source code:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tcl login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tcl co -r core-8-4-4 tcl

Similarly for Tk:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktoolkit login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktoolkit co -r core-8-4-4 tk

Then:

  % ./configure --prefix=<whereyouwantitinstalled>
  % make
  % make test
  % make install
  % <any other tests e.g. test your own extensions>

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[Jacob Levy] July 19, 2003: Tested the Tcl side of things on RH 7.3 gcc 2.96, all clean. Cannot run 'make test' on Tk because I have a display-less machine (only ssh-accessible). Tk did build and install cleanly.

[TV] I make-ed the previous version only, on rh8+, download from web browser, then uncompress and untar:

 tar -xzf tcl*gz

and the same for tk. Same as above, but need tcl install first (not just make) before tk, though I guess some environment var could be set. All clean, too. I used a non-superuser account, which wasn't a problem except for standard install places, has to be root.

Try XFree86, the currently [cygwin] supplied X server for windows, runs smooth enough. Unless you have another reason things can just be ssh, that nicely can give you the wish window on a windows machine, running on linux.