After compiling a package which is linked to tcl/tk I noticed it doesn't want to run on other machines. It turns out that the package was linked using -ltcl -ltk, so it requires libtcl.so and libtk.so, but: $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtcl.so tcl-devel-8.4.5-7 $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtk.so tk-devel-8.4.5-8 So those libraries are part of the -devel rpms. Is this a bug in packaging, or should software explicitly link to a specific version, e.g. -ltcl8.4 -ltk8.4 ? (since libtcl8.4.so is part of the tcl-8.4.5-7 rpm). Or is it really necessary to have these -devel rpms present on every machine? (which would be problematic since tk-devel has a dependency on the X devel rpms so this would pull in a lot of additional stuff) David Jansen
