Patch by Sergei Golovan (originally by Mike Markley and Chris Waters) fixes
building on non-linux Debian architectures.

--- tcl8.5-8.5.8.orig/unix/configure
+++ tcl8.5-8.5.8/unix/configure
@@ -6536,6 +6536,9 @@
 		if test "`uname -s`" = "AIX" ; then
 		    tcl_cv_sys_version=AIX-`uname -v`.`uname -r`
 		fi
+		if test "`uname -s`" = "NetBSD" -a -f /etc/debian_version ; then
+		    system=NetBSD-Debian
+		fi
 	    fi
 	fi
 
@@ -7340,7 +7343,7 @@
 fi
 
 	    ;;
-	Linux*)
+	Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD-Debian)
 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
 	    SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}'
 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
--- tcl8.5-8.5.8.orig/unix/Makefile.in
+++ tcl8.5-8.5.8/unix/Makefile.in
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@
 SHLIB_LD		= @SHLIB_LD@
 SHLIB_CFLAGS		= @SHLIB_CFLAGS@
 SHLIB_LD_LIBS		= @SHLIB_LD_LIBS@
+SHLIB_LD_FLAGS		= @SHLIB_LD_FLAGS@
 TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS	= @TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS@
 
 SHLIB_SUFFIX		= @SHLIB_SUFFIX@
--- tcl8.5-8.5.8.orig/unix/tcl.m4
+++ tcl8.5-8.5.8/unix/tcl.m4
@@ -962,6 +962,9 @@
 		if test "`uname -s`" = "AIX" ; then
 		    tcl_cv_sys_version=AIX-`uname -v`.`uname -r`
 		fi
+		if test "`uname -s`" = "NetBSD" -a -f /etc/debian_version ; then
+		    tcl_cv_sys_version=NetBSD-Debian
+		fi
 	    fi
 	fi
     ])
@@ -1422,7 +1425,7 @@
 	        ])
 	    ])
 	    ;;
-	Linux*)
+	Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD-Debian)
 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
 	    SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}'
 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"