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

[Klaus Rudolph]

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 :-)

build is complete, no runtime tests done.

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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >