>Trying to make tcl/tk out of the package system was going well until here:
>ld: Global Offset Table overflow (use `-fPIC')
>ld: tkCanvPs.o: GOT overflow for relocation at 0x8c0
>Adding -fPIC to the ld options produced invalid command option '-fPIC'

you need to add -fPIC to the CFLAGS fed to gcc (and - groan - recompile =
all the .o).  i'm surprised ./configure --enable-shared didn't do that.

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