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From: R.K. O. Ph.D. <rk...@ow...> - 2001-11-05 23:48:47
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> Philip Kearns (Phi...@te...) wrote: > > > I recently downloaded modules 3.1.5 from > > > > ftp://modules.sourceforge.net/pub/modules/ > > > > I was able to compile it under Solaris 8 (also Solaris 7) > > only by making some modifications which you might like to > > know about. Have a look at the attached text file. > > Hello, Philip. > > Apologies for the late reply. > > I build modules on Solaris 7/8 here using by setting the > TCLTKROOT variable in RKOConfigure (commented out by > default) and adding "--with-tcl-version=8.0". Looking at > configure, it seems this will bypass running probetcl > (which fails for me as well). I didn't need to do this > in the past; I don't know what may have changed on our > Sun systems to make it fail now. Your changes to probetcl > look like they'll work at our site too. > > R.K., where does the command "tcl" live on your system(s)? > We've got Tcl 8.0.4 here and only tclsh was built (as far > as an executable goes). I think this may be a RedHat-ism which has /usr/bin/tcl which only differs from /usr/bin/tclsh by setting the prompt. Hmm, I don't recall ever modifying the probetcl file ... so it may have been an older convention with the Tcl < 7.40. I've patched the probetcl file per Philip Kearns and added some other code to use tclsh if tcl is not found. (It's probably not pretty or elegant.) I've hacked the configure script/Makefile to use -ltcl@TCL_VERSION@ which should obviate the common practice of creating a link between libtcl8.0.so and libtcl.so, etc. This will all be checked into CVS shortly as a precursor to 3.1.6. However, in the up-and-coming 3.2 version, I've reworked the configure script to find and load the tclConfig.sh script to set the Tcl specific env.vars. and have totally eliminated the probtcl script and much of those hassles. > > > I have also distilled the FrameMaker 3 file into PDF (90 > > kbytes) which I can send to you if you are interested. > > Are you referring to the Modules-Paper.doc file? That's > been PDFified on the Modules website but not in the distro > yet. It's an old document; the files INSTALL and INSTALL.RH7x > are much more practical guides to Modules installation and > usage. Thanks for the offer, of course! I should add it to the distribution anyways, since many of us don't have access to FrameMaker, and I compared both files and they appear to produce like results (via xpdf), and it's roughly smaller by about 30%. However, Leo is right that the INSTALL* files are more up-to-date to the distribution and should be considered the working docs for installation. The Modules-Paper doc is more for historical context. > > Regards, > > - Leo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leo Butler Staff ASIC Engineer > Brocade Communications Phone: (408) 487-8096 > 1745 Technology Drive Fax: (408) 392-6675 > San Jose, CA 95110 mailto:lb...@br... > I'll probably release a new version of Modules (3.1.6) this Thursday, or next Monday. +------------------+---------------------+ | R.K.Owen,PhD | rk...@ow... | | KooZ Software | Environment Modules | | NERSC/LBNL | rk...@ne... | +------------------+---------------------+ |
