Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Does OpenACS 3.x really require libpgtcl.so?
I've not installed the 7.1 RPMs, but when building from sources "--with-tcl" also tries to build TK, and on two of my systems something required by TK (wish?) didn't exist. So I've needed to build "--with-tcl --without-tk". Do the distributed 7.1 RPMs give you that level of granularity?
I'm not too concerned about requirements to rebuild PG 7.1 RPMs from
SRPMs, since that is Lamar's job anyway 
The postgresql-tcl binary
RPM adds exactly six files to your machine:
and two of those are symlinks. So that seems sufficiently granular. I saw the requires statement in the earlier RPMs, but then found that OpenACS 3.2.4 'worked' for me without postgresql-tcl installed. So I was confused about what was going on there.
I think bboard searching is off by default, so the question becomes whether we need to force RPM users to install postgres-tcl just to satisfy a dependency they may never actually need, or document this so that they know that this option requires libpgtcl.so? Maybe leave it out of the requirements but ensure there is a clear comment in the config file where one would turn on bboard searches about this?
I should try it for myself... but how clear are the error messages when you try to enable bboard searches and the utility concerned can't find libpgtcl.so ?
