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diff --git a/unix/porting.notes b/unix/porting.notes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecb395d --- /dev/null +++ b/unix/porting.notes @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +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. |