Re: [Simulavr-devel] actual cvs fails to build on suse 10.3

[Joel Sherrill]

Klaus Rudolph wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have autoconf 2.61 on my system.
>
> I set my local AC_PREREQ to 2.61 and it seems to work fine.
> So I think we could do this in general. If so, can you check that change 
> in please? I have no idea which problems could this generate :-)
>
>   
I am by no means an expert on autoconf versions but
I don't think we are doing anything weird that would
break.  

Committed backing it down to 2.61. 
> build is complete, no runtime tests done.
>
>   
That's progress.  Hopefully you can run make check
and a couple of examples.

Did you see my tracker issue to fix some warnings?

--joel

> Fine! Thanks!
>   Klaus
>
>
>
>
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I have addressed all of these issues.  If
> > /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh is available, the configure
> > script now sources it to get the include and library
> > information for tcl.  That should give us the official
> > information for the installed tcl.  If it isn't, we go
> > into the old guessing mode which didn't guess well. :)
> >
> > I also tinkered with the src/Makefile.am so it built
> > an intermediate static libsim.a which contains
> > the common objects to the simulavr executable and
> > the shared library.  Now simulavr.exe should NOT
> > be dependent in any way on tcl.
> >
> > --joel
> >
> > Klaus Rudolph wrote:
> >     
> > > Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Klaus Rudolph wrote:
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > actual cvs head could not build on SuSE10.3
> > > > >
> > > > > cannot find -ltcl
> > > > >
> > > > > SuSE comes with libtcl8.4.so
> > > > >
> > > > >         
> > > > >           
> > > > Is this from the link step?
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > Yes, this is in link stage.
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Where is it installed?  Don't you have libtcl.so somewhere?
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > No, SuSE comes with libtcl8.4.so
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > What libtcl* files do you have?
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > The autotools version is setup so it will build
> > > > simulavr.exe but no .so or the examples if it doesn't
> > > > find tcl.  But it is based on testing for tcl.h and
> > > > assumes there is a libtcl to go along with it.
> > > > But obviously not in your case.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > tcl is installed and tcl.h (/usr/include/) is available.
> > > libtcl4.8 is located in (usr/lib)
> > >
> > > I am wondering why simulavrxx itself try to link against ltcl???
> > > The simulator needs no tcl at all. I think that must be removed.
> > >
> > > The so-file needs tcl for the swig stuff which is needed by load from 
> > > tcl.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > I will add a probe for various libtcl variants
> > > > and turn it into an autoconf variable.  Just
> > > > tell me what is on your machine.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > I hope you already have this info in my lines above?!
> > >
> > > One test for libversion could be to ask tcl itself for the version!
> > > in tclsh: info tclversion
> > > returns the version number. On my system:
> > >
> > > % info tclversion
> > > 8.4
> > >
> > > Maybe you can add this to a check.
> > >
> > > My config.h/Makefile uses: -ltcl$(TCL_VERSION)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps!
> > >   Klaus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> >     
>
>   


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