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@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
<indexterm zone="ch-tools-tcl"><primary sortas="a-Tcl">Tcl</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
-<para>The Tcl package contains the Tool Command Language.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -18,25 +17,11 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.9 SBU</seg><seg>23 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Tcl installation depends on</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
-GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tcl</title>
-<para>This package and the next two are only installed to support running the
-test suites for GCC and Binutils. Installing three packages just for testing
-purposes may seem like overkill, but it is very reassuring, if not essential,
-to know that our most important tools are working properly. Even if the
-the test suites are not run in this chapter (we recommend not running them),
-these packages are still required to run the test suites in the next
-chapter.</para>
-
<para>Prepare Tcl for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>cd unix
@@ -46,15 +31,8 @@ chapter.</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>If you want to test the results, then issue:
-<userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput>. However, the Tcl test suite is known
-to experience failures under certain host conditions that are not fully
-understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not surprising, and are not
-considered critical. The <parameter>TZ=UTC</parameter> parameter sets the time
-zone to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) also known as Greenwich Mean Time
-(GMT), but only for the duration of the test suite run. This ensures the clock
-tests are exercised correctly. More information on the TZ environment variable
-will be given later on in <xref linkend="chapter-bootscripts"/>.</para>
+<para>To test the results, issue:
+<userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput>.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
@@ -72,30 +50,7 @@ will need its internal headers.</para></warning>
<sect2 id="contents-tcl" role="content"><title>Contents of Tcl</title>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>tclsh (link to tclsh8.4), tclsh8.4</seg><seg>libtcl8.4.so</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-
-<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
-
-<varlistentry id="tclsh8.4">
-<term><command>tclsh8.4</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-tools-tcl tclsh8.4"><primary sortas="b-tclsh8.4">tclsh8.4</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is the Tcl command shell.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="libtcl8.4.so">
-<term><filename class="libraryfile">libtcl8.4.so</filename></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-tools-tcl libtcl8.4.so"><primary sortas="c-libtcl8.4.so">libtcl8.4.so</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is the Tcl library.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
+<para>See testing</para>
</sect2>