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I broke my Linux installation and had to wipe and reinstall, all of this worked without issue last year, what happened?

I am interested to know if this as yet unpublished fix addresses that.

Save as file then use `git am filename`

`From 359af1db3bef96872602bc6e7b7c317f2edfba88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001`
`From: "Darryl L. Miles" <darryl.miles@REMOVED>`
`Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:54:18 +0100`
`Subject: [PATCH] readline/Makefile: adjustment`

`The symlink is to a directory so -f is an incorrect test.  It will never work.`
`It doesn't fail because Makefile sees the target 'readline' existing so`
  `doesn't run it again anyway.`

`No need for subshell ( ) this is not TCL.`
`Double dollar to escape Makefile $().`
`It crudley selects the highest readline version number based on ls ordering.`
`---`
 `readline/Makefile | 4 ++--`
 `1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)`

`diff --git a/readline/Makefile b/readline/Makefile`
`index 8498f5dd..d36d0fcb 100644`
`--- a/readline/Makefile`
`+++ b/readline/Makefile`
`@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ module: readline readline/libreadline.a readline/libhistory.a`
 `depend:`

 `readline:`
`-    @if ( ! test -f readline/readline ) ; then \`
`-    ln -s `ls | grep readline` readline ; \`
`+    @if ! test -e readline/readline ; then \`
`+    ln -s `ls | grep readline | grep -v "^readline$$" | tail -n1` readline ; \`
     `fi`

 `readline/libhistory.a: readline/libreadline.a`
`--`
`2.43.0`

Also note if this is happening can you confirm TCL/Tk is not being built into the resulting program.  The output at end of ./configure can confirm.

Is this intentional, what is the reason for this ?

Maybe you should consider installing 'tcl-dev tk-dev' and re-running ./configure and then building (if known that you don't have a specific reason not to include TCL you should do this)