#37 Default Tcl is not a threaded build on SuSE Linux

[Carlos A Pereira]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a project manager website based on
the ProjectOpen software (www.project-open.com). This
software is based on TCL and requires an OpenACS
framework running on an AOLServer.

I'm using a machine running openSuSE 10.1 and already
installed the TCL 8.4 thru the setup tool (YaST).

When I try to install the AOLServer I get the following
error:

DELL-P3-800:/usr/local/aolserver # /usr/bin/tclsh8.4
./nsconfig.tcl
Executing ./configure TCLSH=/usr/bin/tclsh8.4
--prefix=/usr --with-tcl=/usr/lib
checking for Tcl configuration... found
/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh
checking for existence of /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh... loading
configure: error: must build tcl with --enable-threads
child process exited abnormally
while executing
"exec ./configure TCLSH=/usr/bin/tclsh8.4 --prefix=/usr
--with-tcl=/usr/lib >&@ stdout"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval exec $configure >&@ stdout"
invoked from within
"if [string equal $tcl_platform(platform) unix] {
set configure [list ./configure TCLSH=$tclsh
--prefix=$install --with-tcl=$tcldir/lib]
if $debug {
..."
(file "./nsconfig.tcl" line 114)
DELL-P3-800:/usr/local/aolserver #

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How do I fix the TCL setup to enable threads (I think
that this is the problem)?

Thank you...

Alexandre

[Dossy Shiobara]

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Alexandre,

You will need a threaded Tcl build. I'm not sure if this
is, but you could check:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/tcl

It appears there are SuSE RPMs for Tcl 8.4.12 there now, as
well as source RPMs.

Regardless, in order to build AOLserver, you will need a
threaded Tcl build. Configure Tcl with "--enable-threads"
to do so.

[Bas Scheffers]

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The best way to install AOLserver is to follow the instructions and building Tcl
yourself. Grab yourself a copy of Tcl at http://www.tcl.tk/, build it into /usr/
local/aolserver and then use that same dir to build aolserver into.

That way you won't have incompatibility problems with your distro provided Tcl.
Even if it works now, updates by your distro could break things in the future...

[SourceForge Robot]

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