Re: Error building Tcl9 on minimalistic Debian

This is a commonly reported issue. Afaik, there is no current alternative to installing zip. It's possible specifying "--disable-zipfs" as part of the configure step might work but not tested it myself. (It would install the Tcl scripts as separate files similar to 8.6 instead of appending them to the shared library.)
/Ashok
On 12/5/2024 8:01 PM, Uwe Schmitz wrote:

Folks,
 I try to build Tcl9 from sources on a minmalistic Debian installation.
At least it has no zip installed. It seems that the build process
then uses minizip which is part of the release.
I saw that minizip is build and used succesfully at least once.
 But later on I get this error (german lang/localisation):
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<snip>
creating libthread.vfs/thread_library (prepare compression)
creating libthread3.0.0.zip from libthread.vfs/thread_library
cd libthread.vfs && /home/schmitzu/ent/buildt9/toolsBuild/tcl9.0.0/unix/ pkgs8/thread3.0.0/minizip -o -r ../libthread3.0.0.zip *
/bin/bash: Zeile 5: /home/schmitzu/ent/buildt9/toolsBuild/tcl9.0.0/unix/ pkgs8/thread3.0.0/minizip: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[1]: *** [Makefile:233: libthread3.0.0.zip] Fehler 127
make[1]: Verzeichnis »/home/schmitzu/ent/buildt9/toolsBuild/tcl9.0.0/ unix/pkgs8/thread3.0.0« wird verlassen
make: *** [Makefile:2070: packages] Fehler 2
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 It seems that the thread package uses minizip in the wrong place.
Can anyone confirm this or does anyone know how to patch?
(beside installing zip...)
 Many thanks in advance
Uwe