[TCLCORE] Bogus Tcl bug reports from LFS users

Hello,

I'm one of the maintainers of the Tcl programming language.

Lately we're seeing a small but increasing number of bug reports
submitted against Tcl coming from people attempting to follow the
Linux From Scratch outline.

I looked briefly at the online LFS instructions,

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/

and it appears that Tcl is the first software package compile that is
attempted after the "adjustment of the toolchain".

In the bug reports we receive, it's clear that the problem is that
fundamental parts of the C library ( memcmp(), strstr(), etc.) are
not found when the configure/compile is attempted.  This suggests to
me that something has gone wrong with the toolchain adjustment step,
and the LFS user has a system that isn't working sufficiently well
for building Tcl.

I see that at the end of the "Adjusting the Toolchain" section,

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/adjusting.html

a simple test is provided to check whether the toolchain adjustment was
completed successfully.  Would it be possible to enhance that test so
that the ability to link against glibc and run programs using glibc
is also tested?

A test and failure at that point would help LFS users get on the right
track earlier, and would spare the Tcl developers getting sent these
bogus bug reports.

Thanks for whatever help/advice you can offer, and if this message
is misdirected, please offer guidance where else I should send it.

| Don Porter          Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| dona...@nist.gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|



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