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diff --git a/unix/porting.notes b/unix/porting.notes index f04e5ca..5376663 100644 --- a/unix/porting.notes +++ b/unix/porting.notes @@ -1,412 +1,11 @@ -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. |