Re: compiling swarm-2.1.1 on slackware 7.1

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

PJ> I don't know what Intel i810 machine means. If it is a Pentium of
PJ> some sort, no problem.  I thought 810 was a motherboard chipset
PJ> designation.

Yep, that's right.

PJ> You don't need gdb to compile swarm.  I've not built Swarm on
PJ> Slackware in 16 months, but I don't think there should be any big
PJ> problems.  Marcus may correct me, but here is where I would go
PJ> about it.

Since I've found myself working in a Slackware shop (not my decision
mind you ;-)), I will weigh in on this, if I may:

PJ> 1. Compile gcc-2.95.2.  

Check Linux Mafia:

 http://www.linuxmafia.org/

for newer gcc* (2.95) packages for Slackware.  I know someone has
built them, and believe me, it will save you considerable time and
pain...  

PJ> 2. Make sure you have tcl/tk properly installed.  I believe you
PJ> need an edition in the 8.x series.

8.3.x should be in the base Slackware 7.1 distro.

PJ> 3. Install blt.  To build blt, you must have the tcl/tk source,
PJ> blt gets untarred into a directory there and blt has to be told
PJ> where the tcl/tk source is.  

This you still have to do.  No-one has packaged it up for Slackware as
yet.  If I have spare time, I might try and package up blt and swarm
as Slackware tgz packages, but probably not for a while (i.e. don't
wait for me to get around to it! ;-)).

[...]

Good luck!

Alex
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