libtcl8.4.so missing (in tcl8.4-dev for some reason?)

Thanks for your report but this is not a bug.
The shared library is /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0 (included in tcl8.4). libtcl8.4.so is only needed for linking at compilation time therefore it is included in tcl8.4-dev.

I'm rejecting this bug report for now. Please reopen if your problem still exists.

well *i* seem to need it for runtime programs anyway. perhaps something funny happened during compilation:

sean@jenka:~$ ldd /usr/local/Modules/3.1.6/bin/modulecmd | grep tcl
        libtcl8.4.so => /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so (0xb7e59000)

which does not resolve to .so.0 when the .so is not present. re-reading my own problem i agree that libtcl8.4.so actually belongs in the -dev package, but now i'm confused why my program is dynamically linked against the library without the soname...

That's something in /usr/local -- Ubuntu never puts software there.

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:20 +0000, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> That's something in /usr/local -- Ubuntu never puts software there.

erm, you might say i'm aware of such details ;p

in my last message i thought it was pretty clear (i.e "my program") that
i wasn't assuming this, but was curious as to how such a program could
have been linked against the .so and not the .so.soname library. i'm
guessing that it's breakage in the upstream author's build process.