When anything libtcl (bug #247282) this will fail, and we're only finding out the version of the library anyway, so why not use TCL_VER, which is found using a slightly less fishy method. -JeR --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ fi if [ -n $USE_TCL ] then - LIBPOSTFIX=`ls -1 /usr/local/lib/ /usr/lib | grep 'libtcl[0-9]' | grep so | sed -e 's/\.so.*//g' -e 's/libtcl//g' | sort -r | head -1` - TCL_LIB="-ltcl${LIBPOSTFIX} -lm -lpthread" + TCL_LIB="-ltcl${TCL_VER} -lm -lpthread" fi #