Re: [ECOS] trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7

[Greg Shubin <gshubin@sonic.net>]

When I tried to build the ECOS tools on FreeBSD, I found that the configure
script makes a few (Linux-centric?) assumptions about where tcl is installed.
For one, it assumes a single version in a single location (e.g. /usr), where
the include and lib directories can be found.

tcl on FreeBSD allows for having several versions installed, so there are
sudirectories for the include and lib files, e.g. /usr/local/include/tcl8.0
and /usr/local/include/tcl8.2, and the same for the libraries.

Looking at our local Solaris (SunOS 5.1) it seems like there is a hybrid, i.e.
there is one /usr/loca/include/tcl.h, but there are several lib
subdirectories, /usr/local/lib/tcl8.x.

I started to play around with modifying configure, but then I found that
ecosconfig ran just fine under FreBSD's Linux compatiibility. It looked like
you could add a new variable for the library, something like 'with-tcl-lib',
and use 'with-tcl' for the include directory.

Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> Robert Swindells wrote:
> >
> > [Problems with building ecosconfig deleted]
> >
> > You need to build and install both infra and libcdl before building
> > ecosconfig itself.
> >
> > The configure script for ecosconfig assumes that all the headers have
> > been copied to /usr/local/include.
>
> That's odd, here (admittedly on Linux) I have no trouble doing:
>
> ~/sourceware/ecos/ecos/host/configure --with-tcl=PATHTOINSTALLEDTCL
> --with-tcl-version=8.2
> make
>
> Note that part of the configure output includes:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/local/pot/ecc-obj/native/x/infra'
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> /home/jlarmour/sourceware/ecos/ecos/host/infra/infra.h pkgconf/inf
> ra.h
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 hostinfra.h pkgconf/hostinfra.h
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> /home/jlarmour/sourceware/ecos/ecos/host/infra/cyg_type.h cyg/infr
> a/cyg_type.h
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> /home/jlarmour/sourceware/ecos/ecos/host/infra/basetype.h cyg/hal/
> basetype.h
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> /home/jlarmour/sourceware/ecos/ecos/host/infra/cyg_ass.h cyg/infra
> /cyg_ass.h
> c++ -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-proto
>
> Jifl
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