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+This file contains a collection of notes that various people have
+provided about porting Tk 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 very
+interested in getting new porting information to add to the file;
+please mail updates to "john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com".
+
+This file reflects information provided for Tk 4.0 and later releases.
+If there is no information for your configuration in this file, check
+the file "porting.old" too;  it contains information that was
+submitted for Tk 3.6 and earlier releases, and some of that information
+may still be valid.
+
+A new porting database has recently become available on the Web at
+the following URL:
+    http://www.sunlabs.com/cgi-bin/tcl/info.4.0
+This page provides information about the platforms on which Tcl 7.4
+and Tk 4.0 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 = SCCS: @(#) porting.notes 1.10 96/04/10 15:38:54
+
+--------------------------------------------
+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 (Tk will expect one version
+and get another).
+
+3. On 486 PCs with Solaris 2.4, when compiling with gcc 2.6.0,
+tkMessage.c appears to hang gcc.  If the -O switch is removed
+then it compiles fine.
+
+--------------------------------------------
+486 PCs, Solaris 2.4
+--------------------------------------------
+
+When compiling with gcc 2.6.0, tkMessage.c appears to hang gcc.
+If the -O switch is removed then it compiles fine.
+
+--------------------------------------------
+SGI machines, IRIX 5.2, 5.3, IRIX64 6.0.1
+--------------------------------------------
+
+1. 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 wish dumps core, try
+removing -O from the CFLAGS in Makefile and recompiling;  compiler
+optimizations seem to cause problems on some machines.
+
+--------------------------------------------
+QNX 4.22
+--------------------------------------------
+
+All of the source files built as is.  All I had to do was edit the
+Makefile generated by ./configure to specify where the X11 libraries
+were (ie, I added in -L/usr/X11/lib)
+
+--------------------------------------------
+HP-UX
+--------------------------------------------
+
+There are problems compiling Tk gcc (version 2.7.2) and the HP assembler.
+The problem is that if static functions are called using a pointer reference,
+double arguments are not transferred correctly into the function. That can
+be fixed by making all those functions global. This happens with the
+ScaleXxx() and TranslateXxx() functions for all canvas item types.
+The simplest fix is configure gcc to use the GNU assembler.