Forum OpenACS Q&A: notes on aolserver4 amd64 install

Yesterday i installed all openacs-4 requisite software on AMD Athlon(tm) 64 using Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1.

Kernel is 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic

gcc version is gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)

Debian 3.1 uses NPTL, you can check with

$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
NPTL 0.60

Tcl 8.4.11 was installed from source following tips from Andrew Piskorski on Aolserver4 list. See Andrew's post here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/aolserver@listserv.aol.com/msg09388.html

Let me give some feedback from difficulties installing aolserver40r10 from source on that system (maybe it could go into docs if reproductible):

a) make fail with following message:

libnsd.so: undefined reference to `pthread_kill_other_threads_np'

how to solve: see this post

http://www.mail-archive.com/aolserver@listserv.aol.com/msg09034.html

b) after install aolserver4 does not start and abort with this message:

NsTclInitObjs: sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)
Aborted

how to solve: see thi post

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.aolserver/10804

following a) e b) workarounds now aolserver4 works for me.

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