Created attachment 204168 [details] Do the needful The attached patch improves the port thus: . Do not even extract the compat/ subdirectory - to ensure, its content is not used at compile time . Do not strip binaries, when DEBUG-option is set In addition, I'd also like to convert the port to using math/libtommath instead of compiling its own version. However, I see some TomMath-related hunks in the files/patch-unix_Makefile.in. Has anyone looked into using the tommath-port already -- as the [Porter's Handbook says](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/bundled-libs.html) The same - or very similar can/should be done to lang/tcl86.
A commit references this bug: Author: gahr Date: Fri May 3 08:07:57 UTC 2019 New revision: 500703 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/500703 Log: lang/tcl87: do not strip in debug mode PR: 237712 Submitted by: mi@ Changes: head/lang/tcl87/Makefile
Regarding libtommath, I think core Tcl bundles a slightly modified version of upstream libtommath. I would rather not take the decision to link against vanilla upstream independently from core Tcl.