[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tcl: bump to version 9.0.3

[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tcl: bump to version 9.0.3

[Shubham Chakraborty]

Major version upgrade from 8.6 to 9.0 series.

Key changes in Tcl 9.0:
- Full Unicode support (UTF-16/UTF-32/UCS-2 encodings)
- 64-bit integer support
- Enhanced encoding with -profile/-failindex options
- Script library packaged with binary
- Improved virtual filesystem support

Also remove bundled itcl and thread packages to reduce bloat.

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html

Tested Using:
- tils/test-pkg -n 13 -p tcl

Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
---
 package/tcl/tcl.hash |  2 +-
 package/tcl/tcl.mk   | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/tcl/tcl.hash b/package/tcl/tcl.hash
index d67a7c4e74..b5f401e83d 100644
--- a/package/tcl/tcl.hash
+++ b/package/tcl/tcl.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  861e159753f2e2fbd6ec1484103715b0be56be3357522b858d3cbb5f893ffef1  tcl8.6.15-src.tar.gz
+sha256  2537ba0c86112c8c953f7c09d33f134dd45c0fb3a71f2d7f7691fd301d2c33a6  tcl9.0.3-src.tar.gz
 sha256  c0a69a2bfd757361ec7e6143973b103c90409316b49e9c88db26ad6388e79f16  license.terms
diff --git a/package/tcl/tcl.mk b/package/tcl/tcl.mk
index 0cd242a2e9..4a34f71693 100644
--- a/package/tcl/tcl.mk
+++ b/package/tcl/tcl.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TCL_VERSION_MAJOR = 8.6
-TCL_VERSION = $(TCL_VERSION_MAJOR).15
+TCL_VERSION_MAJOR = 9.0
+TCL_VERSION = $(TCL_VERSION_MAJOR).3
 TCL_SOURCE = tcl$(TCL_VERSION)-src.tar.gz
 TCL_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tcl/Tcl/$(TCL_VERSION)
 TCL_LICENSE = TCL
@@ -28,17 +28,19 @@ HOST_TCL_CONF_OPTS = \
 # I haven't found a good way to force pkgs to not build
 # or configure without just removing the entire pkg directory.
 define HOST_TCL_REMOVE_PACKAGES
-	rm -fr $(@D)/pkgs/sqlite3* $(@D)/pkgs/tdbc*
+	rm -fr $(@D)/pkgs/itcl* $(@D)/pkgs/sqlite3* $(@D)/pkgs/tdbc* $(@D)/pkgs/thread*
 endef
 HOST_TCL_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += HOST_TCL_REMOVE_PACKAGES
 
 # We remove the bundled sqlite as we prefer to not use bundled stuff at all.
 define TCL_REMOVE_PACKAGES
-	rm -fr $(@D)/pkgs/sqlite3* \
+	rm -fr $(@D)/pkgs/itcl* \
+		$(@D)/pkgs/sqlite3* \
 		$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_MARIADB),,$(@D)/pkgs/tdbcmysql*) \
 		$(@D)/pkgs/tdbcodbc* \
 		$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_POSTGRESQL),,$(@D)/pkgs/tdbcpostgres*) \
-		$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_SQLITE),,$(@D)/pkgs/tdbcsqlite3*)
+		$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_SQLITE),,$(@D)/pkgs/tdbcsqlite3*) \
+		$(@D)/pkgs/thread*
 endef
 TCL_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += TCL_REMOVE_PACKAGES
 
-- 
2.54.0

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Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tcl: bump to version 9.0.3

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 01:42:03PM +0530, Shubham Chakraborty wrote:
> Major version upgrade from 8.6 to 9.0 series.
> 
> Key changes in Tcl 9.0:
> - Full Unicode support (UTF-16/UTF-32/UCS-2 encodings)
> - 64-bit integer support
> - Enhanced encoding with -profile/-failindex options
> - Script library packaged with binary
> - Improved virtual filesystem support

Where is this list of key changes coming from? It doesn't match with
what is at https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html. Is this
just AI-generated slop?

> Also remove bundled itcl and thread packages to reduce bloat.

And this will not break existing users? Is it because those packages
are new?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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