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-This file contains a collection of notes that various people have
-provided about porting Tcl to various machines and operating systems.
-I don't have personal access to any of these machines, so I make
-no guarantees that the notes are correct, complete, or up-to-date.
-If you see the word "I" in any explanations, it refers to the person
-who contributed the information, not to me; this means that I
-probably can't answer any questions about any of this stuff. In
-some cases, a person has volunteered to act as a contact point for
-questions about porting Tcl to a particular machine; in these
-cases the person's name and e-mail address are listed. I'm
-interested in getting new porting information to add to the file;
-please mail updates to "john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com".
+RCS: @(#) $Id: porting.notes,v 1.3 1999/04/16 00:48:03 stanton Exp $
-This file reflects information provided for Tcl 7.4 and later releases (8.x).
-If there is no information for your configuration in this file, check
-the file "porting.old" too; it contains information that was
-submitted for Tcl 7.3 and earlier releases, and some of that information
-may still be valid.
+This file used to contain a collection of notes that various people
+had provided about porting Tcl to various machines and operating
+systems. This information is now available in the Tcl porting
+database at the following location:
-A new porting database has recently become available on the Web at
-the following URL:
- http://www.sunlabs.com/cgi-bin/tcl/info.8.0
-This page provides information about the platforms on which Tcl and
-and Tk 8.0 have been compiled and what changes were needed to get Tcl
-and Tk to compile. You can also add new entries to that database
-when you install Tcl and Tk on a new platform. The Web database is
-likely to be more up-to-date than this file.
-
-sccsid = RCS: @(#) $Id: porting.notes,v 1.2 1998/09/14 18:40:16 stanton Exp $
-
---------------------------------------------
-Solaris, various versions
---------------------------------------------
-
-1. If typing "make test" results in an error message saying that
-there are no "*.test" files, or you get lots of globbing errors,
-it's probably because your system doesn't have cc installed and
-you used gcc. In order for this to work, you have to set your
-CC environment variable to gcc and your CPP environment variable
-to "gcc -E" before running the configure script.
-
-2. Make sure that /usr/ucb is not in your PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-environment variables; this will cause confusion between the new
-Solaris libraries and older UCB versions (Tcl will expect one version
-and get another).
-
-3. There have been several reports of problems with the "glob" command.
-So far these reports have all been for older versions of Tcl, but
-if you run into problems, edit the Makefile after "configure" is
-run and add "-DNO_DIRENT_H=1" to the definitions of DEFS. Do this
-before compiling.
-
---------------------------------------------
-SunOS 4 and potentially other OSes
---------------------------------------------
-
-On systems where both getcwd(3) and getwd(3) exist, check the man
-page and if getcwd, like on SunOS 4, uses popen to pwd(1)
-add -DUSEGETWD to the flags CFLAGS so getwd will be used instead.
-
-That is, change the CFLAGS = -O line so it reads
-CFLAGS = -O -DUSEGETWD
-
---------------------------------------------
-Linux, ELF, various versions/distributions
---------------------------------------------
-
-If ./configure --enable-shared complains it can not do a shared
-library you might have to make the following symbolic link:
-ln -s /lib/libdl.so.1 /lib/libdl.so
-then remove config.cache and re run configure.
-
---------------------------------------------
-Pyramid DC/OSx SVr4, DC/OSx version 94c079
---------------------------------------------
-
-Tcl seems to dump core in cmdinfo.test when compiled with the
-optimiser turned on in TclEval which calls 'free'. To get around
-this, turn the optimiser off.
-
---------------------------------------------
-SGI machines, IRIX 5.2, 5.3, IRIX64 6.0.1
---------------------------------------------
-
-1. If you compile with gcc-2.6.3 under some versions of IRIX (e.g.
- 4.0.5), DBL_MAX is defined too large for gcc and Tcl complains
- about all floating-point values being too large to represent.
- If this happens, redefining DBL_MAX to 9.99e299.
-
-2. Add "-D_BSD_TIME" to CFLAGS in Makefile. This avoids type conflicts
-in the prototype for the gettimeofday procedure.
-
-2. If you're running under Irix 6.x and tclsh dumps core, try
-removing -O from the CFLAGS in Makefile and recompiling; compiler
-optimizations seem to cause problems on some machines.
-
---------------------------------------------
-IBM RTs, AOS
---------------------------------------------
-
-1. Steal fmod from 4.4BSD
-2. Add a #define to tclExpr such that:
-extern double fmod();
-is defined conditionally on ibm032
-
---------------------------------------------
-QNX 4.22
---------------------------------------------
-
-tclPort.h
- - commented out 2 lines containing #include <sys/param.h>
-
-tcl.h
- - changed #define VARARGS ()
- - to #ifndef __QNX__
- #define VARARGS ()
- #else
- #define VARARGS (void *, ...)
- #endif
-
---------------------------------------------
-Interactive UNIX
---------------------------------------------
-
-Add the switch -Xp to LIBS in Makefile; otherwise strftime will not
-be found when linking.
-
---------------------------------------------
-Motorola SVR4 V4.2 (m88k)
---------------------------------------------
-
-For Motorola Unix R40V4.2 (m88k architechure), use /usr/ucb/cc instead of
-/usr/bin/cc. Otherwise, the compile will fail because of conflicts over
-the gettimeofday() call.
-
-Also, -DNO_DIRENT_H=1 is required for the "glob" command to work.
-
---------------------------------------------
-NeXTSTEP 3.x
---------------------------------------------
-
-Here's the set of changes I made to make 7.5b3 compile cleanly on
-NeXTSTEP3.x.
-
-Here are a couple lines from unix/Makefile:
-
-# Added utsname.o, which implements a uname() emulation for NeXTSTEP.
-COMPAT_OBJS = getcwd.o strtod.o tmpnam.o utsname.o
-
-TCL_NAMES=\
- -Dstrtod=tcl_strtod -Dtmpnam=tcl_tmpnam -Dgetcwd=tcl_getcwd \
- -Dpanic=tcl_panic -Dmatherr=tcl_matherr \
- -Duname=tcl_uname -Dutsname=tcl_utsname
-
-# Added mode_t, pid_t, and O_NONBLOCK definitions.
-AC_FLAGS = -DNO_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1
--DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_TM_ZONE=1 -DHAVE_TM_GMTOFF=1 -DHAVE_TIMEZONE_VAR=1
--DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -Dmode_t=int -Dpid_t=int -DO_NONBLOCK=O_NDELAY ${TCL_NAMES}
-
-
-Here are diffs for other files. utsname.[hc] are a couple files I added
-to compat/ I'm not clear whether that's where they legitimately belong
-- I considered stashing them in tclLoadNext.c instead. The tclIO.c
-change was a bug, I believe, which I reported on comp.lang.tcl and
-has apparently been noted and fixed. The objc_loadModules() change
-allows "load" to load object code containing Objective-C code in
-addition to plain C code.
-
----
-scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
-Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
-
-
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/compat/utsname.c tcl7.5b3/compat/utsname.c
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/compat/utsname.c Tue Apr 2 13:57:23 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/compat/utsname.c Mon Mar 18 11:05:54 1996
-***************
-*** 0 ****
---- 1,27 ----
-+ /*
-+ * utsname.c --
-+ *
-+ * This file is an emulation of the POSIX uname() function
-+ * under NeXTSTEP 3.x.
-+ *
-+ */
-+
-
-+ #include "utsname.h"
-+ #include <mach-o/arch.h>
-+ #include <stdio.h>
-+
-
-+ int uname( struct utsname *name)
-+ {
-+ const NXArchInfo *arch;
-+ if( gethostname( name->nodename, sizeof( name->nodename))==-1) {
-+ return -1;
-+ }
-+ if( (arch=NXGetLocalArchInfo())==NULL) {
-+ return -1;
-+ }
-+ strncpy( name->machine, arch->description, sizeof( name->machine));
-+ strcpy( name->sysname, "NEXTSTEP");
-+ strcpy( name->release, "0");
-+ strcpy( name->version, "3");
-+ return 0;
-+ }
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/compat/utsname.h tcl7.5b3/compat/utsname.h
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/compat/utsname.h Tue Apr 2 13:57:26 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/compat/utsname.h Mon Mar 18 10:34:05 1996
-***************
-*** 0 ****
---- 1,22 ----
-+ /*
-+ * utsname.h --
-+ *
-+ * This file is an emulation of the POSIX uname() function
-+ * under NeXTSTEP.
-+ *
-+ */
-+
-
-+ #ifndef _UTSNAME
-+ #define _UTSNAME
-+
-
-+ struct utsname {
-+ char sysname[ 32];
-+ char nodename[ 32];
-+ char release[ 32];
-+ char version[ 32];
-+ char machine[ 32];
-+ };
-+
-
-+ extern int uname( struct utsname *name);
-+
-
-+ #endif /* _UTSNAME */
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/generic/tclIO.c tcl7.5b3/generic/tclIO.c
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/generic/tclIO.c Fri Mar 8 12:59:53 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/generic/tclIO.c Mon Mar 18 11:38:57 1996
-***************
-*** 2542,2548 ****
- }
- result = GetInput(chanPtr);
- if (result != 0) {
-! if (result == EWOULDBLOCK) {
- chanPtr->flags |= CHANNEL_BLOCKED;
- return copied;
- }
---- 2542,2548 ----
- }
- result = GetInput(chanPtr);
- if (result != 0) {
-! if (result == EAGAIN) {
- chanPtr->flags |= CHANNEL_BLOCKED;
- return copied;
- }
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclLoadNext.c tcl7.5b3/unix/tclLoadNext.c
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclLoadNext.c Sat Feb 17 16:16:42 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/unix/tclLoadNext.c Mon Mar 18 10:02:36 1996
-***************
-*** 55,61 ****
- char *files[]={fileName,NULL};
- NXStream *errorStream=NXOpenMemory(0,0,NX_READWRITE);
-
-
-! if(!rld_load(errorStream,&header,files,NULL)) {
- NXGetMemoryBuffer(errorStream,&data,&len,&maxlen);
- Tcl_AppendResult(interp,"couldn't load file \"",fileName,"\": ",data,NULL);
- NXCloseMemory(errorStream,NX_FREEBUFFER);
---- 55,61 ----
- char *files[]={fileName,NULL};
- NXStream *errorStream=NXOpenMemory(0,0,NX_READWRITE);
-
-
-! if(objc_loadModules(files,errorStream,NULL,&header,NULL)) {
- NXGetMemoryBuffer(errorStream,&data,&len,&maxlen);
- Tcl_AppendResult(interp,"couldn't load file \"",fileName,"\": ",data,NULL);
- NXCloseMemory(errorStream,NX_FREEBUFFER);
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixFile.c tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixFile.c
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixFile.c Thu Mar 7 18:16:34 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixFile.c Mon Mar 18 11:10:03 1996
-***************
-*** 31,37 ****
---- 31,41 ----
-
-
- static int executableNameExitHandlerSet = 0;
-
-
-+ #if NeXT
-+ #define waitpid( p, s, o) wait4( p, s, o, NULL)
-+ #else
- extern pid_t waitpid _ANSI_ARGS_((pid_t pid, int *stat_loc, int options));
-+ #endif
-
-
- /*
- * Static routines for this file:
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixInit.c tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixInit.c
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixInit.c Sat Feb 17 16:16:39 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixInit.c Mon Mar 18 11:50:28 1996
-***************
-*** 14,20 ****
- #include "tclInt.h"
- #include "tclPort.h"
- #ifndef NO_UNAME
-! # include <sys/utsname.h>
- #endif
- #if defined(__FreeBSD__)
- #include <floatingpoint.h>
---- 14,24 ----
- #include "tclInt.h"
- #include "tclPort.h"
- #ifndef NO_UNAME
-! # if NeXT
-! # include "../compat/utsname.h"
-! # else
-! # include <sys/utsname.h>
-! # endif
- #endif
- #if defined(__FreeBSD__)
- #include <floatingpoint.h>
-diff -rc tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixPort.h tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixPort.h
-*** tcl7.5b3.orig/unix/tclUnixPort.h Thu Mar 7 18:16:31 1996
---- tcl7.5b3/unix/tclUnixPort.h Mon Mar 18 11:53:14 1996
-***************
-*** 76,82 ****
- */
-
-
- #include <sys/socket.h> /* struct sockaddr, SOCK_STREAM, ... */
-! #include <sys/utsname.h> /* uname system call. */
- #include <netinet/in.h> /* struct in_addr, struct sockaddr_in */
- #include <arpa/inet.h> /* inet_ntoa() */
- #include <netdb.h> /* gethostbyname() */
---- 76,88 ----
- */
-
-
- #include <sys/socket.h> /* struct sockaddr, SOCK_STREAM, ... */
-! #ifndef NO_UNAME
-! # if NeXT
-! # include "../compat/utsname.h"
-! # else
-! # include <sys/utsname.h> /* uname system call. */
-! # endif
-! #endif
- #include <netinet/in.h> /* struct in_addr, struct sockaddr_in */
- #include <arpa/inet.h> /* inet_ntoa() */
- #include <netdb.h> /* gethostbyname() */
-
---------------------------------------------
-SCO Unix 3.2.4 (ODT 3.0)
---------------------------------------------
-
-The macro va_start in /usr/include/stdarg.h is incorrectly terminated by
-a semi-colon. This causes compile of generic/tclBasic.c to fail. The
-best solution is to edit the definition of va_start to remove the `;'.
-This will fix this file for anything you want to compile. If you don't have
-permission to edit /usr/include/stdarg.h in place, copy it to the tcl unix
-directory and change it there.
-
-Contact me directly if you have problems on SCO systems.
-Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
-
---------------------------------------------
-SCO Unix 3.2.5 (ODT 5.0)
---------------------------------------------
-
-Expect failures from socket tests 2.9 and 3.1.
-
-Contact me directly if you have problems on SCO systems.
-Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
-
---------------------------------------------
-Linux 1.2.13 (gcc 2.7.0, libc.so.5.0.9)
---------------------------------------------
-
-Symptoms:
-
-* Some extensions could not be loaded dynamically, most
- prominently Blt 2.0
-
- The given error message essentially said:
- Could not resolve symbol '__eprintf'.
-
- (This procedure is used by the macro 'assert')
-
-Cause
-
-* '__eprintf' is defined in 'libgcc.a', not 'libc.so.x.y'.
- It is therefore impossible to load it dynamically.
-
-* Neither tcl nor tk make use of 'assert', thereby
- preventing a static linkage.
-
-Workaround
-
-* I included <assert.h> in 'tclAppInit.c' / 'tkAppInit.c'
- and then executed 'assert (argc)' just before the call
- to Tcl_Main / Tk_Main.
-
- This forced the static linkage of '__eprintf' and
- everything went fine from then on.
-
- (Something like 'assert (1)', 'assert (a==a)' is not
- sufficient, it will be optimized away).
+ http://www.scriptics.com/software/install.html#Database
+If you port Tcl or Tk to a new platform, you can share any information
+you might have by adding a new entry to this database.