Data General Unix variant
GreenFive 20-MAY-2004 I had quite some problems in compiling Tcl 8.4.6 and Tk 8.4.6 on my DG/UX based machine. With the help of members on the Tcl chat, I finally managed to build it and here are some of my findings:
I first compiled GNU make 3.79.1, as the included DG/UX make barfed with some bogus error messages. Compiling GNU make 3.79.1 is straight forward and does not need any special preparation.
To unpack the current source tarballs of both Tcl and Tk, you need the GNU zip tools (gzip). Compilation is straight forward as with GNU make and doesn't require any special settings.
Compile Tcl 8.4.6
gzip -dc tcl8.4.6-src.tar.gz | tar xfv - cd tcl8.4.6/unix ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gcc --enable-shared make; make install
To check if the installation worked, use:
# /usr/bin/tclsh8.4 % puts [info patchlevel] 8.4.6
Compile Tk 8.4.6
gzip -dc tk8.4.6-src.tar.gz | tar xfv - cd tk8.4.6/unix ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --mandir=/usr/man \ --enable-gcc \ --with-tcl=/usr/lib \ --x-includes=/usr/opt/X11/include \ --x-libraries=/usr/opt/X11/lib \ --enable-shared
On my system the problem was the linker tried to use the incorrect shared library (libX11.so), instead of the correct (libX11.so.1, symlinked to libX11.so.2) and bailed out not finding _XInitImageFuncPtrs. This is solved by slightly adapting the Makefile in the unix subdirectory. Change the line
X11_LIB_SWITCHES = -L/usr/opt/X11/lib -lX11
to
X11_LIB_SWITCHES = /usr/opt/X11/lib/libX11.so.2
and run "make; make install". It should compile and install fine.
Remarks
If you have installed GNU make and your machine comes with two CPUs, "make -j2" works fine and is approximately 1.8 times faster compared to compiling with only one CPU.