Jan Nijtmans
Jan Nijtmans
On other platforms than Windows - indeed - it is not customary to have a version number in the library name. On Windows it's normal (examples: ws2_32.dll, zlib1.dll, winsqlite3.dll, tcl86.dll,...
Well Tcl doens't use any of those, so no objection from me ;-)
TIP vote is done (accepted), and implementation is on trunk (8.7) now. Congratuations!
There's a "msys2-fixes-v001" branch in fossil now, with your PR. Two changes went right in Tcl now, the additional MSYSTEM environmentvariable, and the MSYS_ prefix in tcl.4: those don't harm...
[out.txt](https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/files/5621810/out.txt) Here's the log when doing a cygwin "make test" for Tcl's unmodified core-8-6-branch (with -skip io-53.4.1, since this testcase fails on Cygwin too)
The number of testcases failing on msys2 is now below 100. One of them because of this commit (https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/info/921cc1eb98e51b90). The fossil repository (which this GIT repository is a mirror or)...