Forum OpenACS Q&A: Compiling Aolserver on x86_64

I'm setting up a new Athlon 64 system and have run into compilation issues with Aolserver 4.0.10. I've done a little bit of searching dug up a few Aolserver chat sessions mentioning compilation issues on x86 64 bit systems and some small changes necessary to make things work but I couldn't find the actually changes.

Here is where compilation fails for me:

conn.c: In function âNsTclConnObjCmdâ:
conn.c:843: error: invalid lvalue in assignment

Does anyone have a list of the changes necessary to get Aolserver running on the new Athlons?

Interesting. Based on what I found when searching, I knew there were issues on x86_64 so I assumed this was one of them. I hadn't even thought of the possibility it was TCL (I've probably built 4.0.10 a half-dozen times with different versions of TCL) but I compiled/installed TCL 8.4.11 as well. Seems like this might be a problem with the latest version of TCL.

My original question still applies, though :)

Ah... so it was neither TCL nor Aolserver!

That change got me to a different error:

gcc -pipe -L../nsthread -L../nsd -o nsd main.o libnsd.so -lnsthread -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl8.4 -ldl -lpthread -lieee -lm -lz -lgcc_s -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-rpath,/home/aolserver/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
libnsd.so: undefined reference to `pthread_kill_other_threads_np'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [nsd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/aolserver-4.0.10/nsd'
make: *** [all] Error 1

Still compiling against 8.4.11. I downloaded 8.4.10, which would not compile and 8.4.9 which did compile, though I didn't install it.

That is, I get the same error as Michael about pthread.

Try this http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/aolserver@listserv.aol.com/1619884.html

"his was my fault, being overzealous in the very broad #ifdef check.
Really need to test for LinuxThreads and use #ifdef HAVE_LINUXTHREADS.
Newer Linux has NPTL and not LinuxThreads.

You can just comment out the pthread_kill_other_threads_np() line and
you should be fine.

To check whether your system is using LinuxThreads or NPTL, you can try
this:

$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
NPTL 0.60

That's from my system, running Debian with a custom 2.6.10 kernel and
libc6 2.3.2, here. "

And mine shows:

vinod@vkurup:~/temp/aolserver-4.0.10$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
linuxthreads-0.10

which explains why I didn't get that pthreads error.

I got some error over here,I don't know wether i successfully install it or not,can someone plese tell me if my installation is not successfull

conn.c: In function ‘NsTclConnObjCmd’:
conn.c:843: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
gmake[1]: *** [conn.o] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/aolserver40r10/aolserver/nsd'
gmake: *** [all] Error 1

i'm using gmake install instead of make install and if I use make install the error would also be the same as above

I know this is old news, but I have a new client who has me doing CMS evaluations, and I would like to set up a dotlrn instance, but I can't get AOL Server to build on Fedora Core 4. The configure output seems rational, but it bombs on make install. The compiler is GCC 4.0.2. I read this thread, but I couldn't parse a similar error. Perhaps I'm blind. Anyway, dotlrn looks awesome, but if it takes lots of black magic to install and maintain all of the underlying components, I may just have to write it off and move on to something that installs cleanly.

Here is the error I am getting.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

~jj

[root@localhost aolserver-4.5.0]# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,java,f95,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
[root@localhost aolserver-4.5.0]# make install
./util/nsmakeall.tcl install nsthread nsd nstclsh
./util/nsmakeall.tcl: line 48: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
./util/nsmakeall.tcl: line 48: `}'
make: *** [install-bins] Error 2

Malte,

Looking at your site, it's safe to assume that dotlrn is compatible with AOLServer 4.5, no?

I was digging around, but I couldn't find the english version of your companies web content, only the developer stuff.

If there is any "en" literature that you point me to to learn more about cognovis, that would be greatly appreciated.

Danke!

~jj