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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 = @(#) porting.notes 1.7 95/06/30 11:18:50
-
- --------------------------------------------
- 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
- --------------------------------------------
-
- Add "-D_BSD_TIME" to CFLAGS in Makefile. This avoids type conflicts
- in the prototype for the gettimeofday procedure.
-
- --------------------------------------------
- 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)
-
-