Index: unix/configure
===================================================================
--- unix.orig/configure
+++ unix/configure
@@ -6726,6 +6726,7 @@ fi
 	    # symbols when dynamically loaded into tclsh.
 	    SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}'
 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
+	    SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${VERSION}\$\{DBGX\}.so.0'
 
 	    DL_OBJS="tclLoadDl.o"
 	    LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR="LIBPATH"
Index: unix/tcl.m4
===================================================================
--- unix.orig/tcl.m4
+++ unix/tcl.m4
@@ -1424,6 +1424,7 @@ dnl AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
 	    SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}'
 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
+	    SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}\$\{DBGX\}.so.0'
 
 	    CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE="-O2"
 	    # egcs-2.91.66 on Redhat Linux 6.0 generates lots of warnings 
@@ -1431,12 +1432,15 @@ dnl AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
 	    # get rid of the warnings.
 	    #CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE="${CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE} -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -D__NO_MATH_INLINES"
 
+	    # following line added by CW for Debian GNU/Linux
+	    TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS="-Wl,-soname,\${TCL_LIB_FILE}.0"
+
 	    SHLIB_LD='${CC} -shared ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}'
 	    DL_OBJS="tclLoadDl.o"
 	    DL_LIBS="-ldl"
 	    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--export-dynamic"
 	    AS_IF([test $doRpath = yes], [
-		CC_SEARCH_FLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'])
+		CC_SEARCH_FLAGS=''])
 	    LD_SEARCH_FLAGS=${CC_SEARCH_FLAGS}
 	    AS_IF([test "`uname -m`" = "alpha"], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mieee"])
 	    AS_IF([test $do64bit = yes], [
@@ -2079,7 +2083,7 @@ dnl # preprocessing tests use only CPPFL
 
     AS_IF([test "${SHARED_BUILD}" = 1 -a "${SHLIB_SUFFIX}" != ""], [
         LIB_SUFFIX=${SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX}
-        MAKE_LIB='${SHLIB_LD} -o [$]@ ${OBJS} ${SHLIB_LD_LIBS} ${TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS} ${TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS} ${LD_SEARCH_FLAGS}'
+        MAKE_LIB='${SHLIB_LD} -o $@ ${OBJS} ${SHLIB_LD_LIBS} ${TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS} ${TK_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS} ${LD_SEARCH_FLAGS}'
         INSTALL_LIB='$(INSTALL_LIBRARY) $(LIB_FILE) "$(LIB_INSTALL_DIR)"/$(LIB_FILE)'
     ], [
         LIB_SUFFIX=${UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX}