I am finally updating the OS on my ancient laptop after using ubuntu 12.04 for 5+ years.
As far as I can make out, Ubuntu no longer support 32-bit systems, so I have installed mint. I have a shedload of Tcl scripts and have always relied on ActiveTcl in the past, but they seem no longer to provide a batteries-included distribution, so I've downloaded and built tcl8.7a1 and tk8.7a1 which I have installed in /opt/tcl8.7a1.
One script that I want to continue to use fails with can't find package tdbc::mysql, so I am trying to build the tdbc package (to be followed by tdbc::mysql and tdbc::sqlite3). I have started by cloning the fossil repository at core.tcl.tk/tdbc.
However,
./configure --prefix=/opt/tcl8.7a1 --with-tcl=/opt/tcl8.7a1/lib
fails with
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in tclconfig "."/tclconfig
I had a look through configure and couldn't see that the symbols set up around where the error occurs were being used anywhere else, so I just commented out the error line and a few more.
This allowed the configure command to complete, and I was able to make without errors, however, make install failed because it couldn't find install.sh - maybe those variables are used somewhere :-).
What should I do to get around the configure error?
I think you would be better off using the production release: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.8/ The db access packages are included and will be built for you.