Forum OpenACS Development: Error installing tcl 8.4x (how to solve)

Hi!

I had an error installing tcl 8.4.x. Error was something like this:

checking system version (for dynamic loading)... ./unix/configure: line
7654: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
./unix/configure: line 7654: ` OSF*)'

Problem is with bash 3.1. You have to change two lines at configure.in ( Normally at /usr/local//usr/local/src/tcl8.4.XX/unix ) removing the ' character in two lines:

- system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print $3}' /etc/.relid'`
+ system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print $3}' /etc/.relid`

This is documented at:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9384126&forum_id=3854

I put this here because I didn't see any post about it.

Same needs to be done for libthread (thread2.6.2)

I've received a post from Aolserver list, and perhaps it works. I cited here from John:
"
I use tDOM on the 64 bit machine, and instead of installign tDOM from a tea file, I installed from the tarfile, with the command:

../configure --enable-threads --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-64bit

and didn't have any problems with tDOM under 64 bit aolserver.
"

I always write a file called my-configure so I can remember what I did. For tDOM, I use this:

#!/bin/bash

../configure --enable-threads \
        --enable-shared \
        --enable-dtd \
        --enable-ns \
        --disable-unknown \
        --disable-tdomalloc \
        --with-tcl=/web/nsd45/lib \
        --with-aolserver=/web/nsd45

From the unix subdirectory.

For some reason configure is in the parent directory but you have to run it from the unix directory. But the build appears to be 64 bit:

/web/nsd45/lib/tdom0.8.1 $ file libtdom0.8.1.so
libtdom0.8.1.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

So maybe it picks up the 64bit from Tcl? Here is my tcl my-configure:

#!/bin/bash

./configure --prefix=/web/nsd45 \
  --enable-64bit \
  --enable-threads \
  --enable-shared

This is also run from the unix directory, but configure is in the unix directory in this case.

AOLserver has this my-configure:

#!/bin/bash

./configure --prefix=/web/nsd45 \
  --with-tcl=/web/nsd45/lib \
  --enable-threads \
  --enable-shared \
  --enable-debug \
  --enable-symbols

And my nsd is 64bit:

/web/nsd45/bin $ file nsd
nsd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped

Yes tdom/unix/config.log does contain the last command line, but it isn't general. Tcl puts it in config.status, not in config.log I also copy the file around when I update to a new version, so a separate file helps me find what I did last.

I compiled Tcl with --enable-64bit as shown above. In AOLserver I don't see any 64bit flags (tcl cc is gcc -pipe) and config.log doesn't seem to do any checking, but the arch is x86_64. Whatever the reason, I didn't need to put the --enable-64bit option when doing configure for tDOM or AOLserver.