[Jacob Levy] July 19, 2003: Please report here on your testing of Tcl 8.4.4. It's available by anon CVS now in the sourceforge.net CVS.

To get the source code:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tcl login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tcl co -r core-8-4-4 tcl

Similarly for Tk:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktoolkit login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tktoolkit co -r core-8-4-4 tk

Then:

  % ./configure --prefix=<whereyouwantitinstalled>
  % make
  % make test
  % make install
  % <any other tests e.g. test your own extensions>

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[Jacob Levy] July 19, 2003: Tested the Tcl side of things on RH 7.3 gcc 2.96, all clean. Cannot run 'make test' on Tk because I have a display-less machine (only ssh-accessible). Tk did build and install cleanly.

[TV] I make-ed the previous version only, on rh8+, download from web browser, then uncompress and untar:

 tar -xzf tcl*gz

and the same for tk. Same as above, but need tcl install first (not just make) before tk, though I guess some environment var could be set. All clean, too. I used a non-superuser account, which wasn't a problem except for standard install places, has to be root.

Try XFree86, the currently [cygwin] supplied X server for windows, runs smooth enough. Unless you have another reason things can just be ssh, that nicely can give you the wish window on a windows machine, running on linux.

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[MC] 19 July 2003: I'm going to test building Tcl 8.4.4 with all the various permutations of ./configure --options on Debian Linux, RH 6.0, Tru64 and OpenBSD.  Here's the Tcl script I'm using to generate a shell script to do all the compiles and create a log with all the configure, compile and test output.  (It'll need a few tweaks for Tru64, i.e., cc -V instead of gcc -v, etc.)

 #!/bin/sh
 # -*- tcl -*- \
 exec tclsh $0 ${1+"$@"}
 
 proc sign var {
     upvar 1 $var thing
     if {$thing == "enable"} {
         return +$var
     } else {
         return -$var
     }
 }
 
 puts "#!/bin/sh"
 puts "cd ~/testbuild"
 
 set counter 0
 
 foreach threads {enable disable} {
     foreach langinfo {enable disable} {
         foreach shared {enable disable} {
             foreach load {enable disable} {
                 foreach symbols {enable disable} {
                     set builddir build[format %02d [incr counter]]
                     append builddir [sign threads]
                     append builddir [sign langinfo]
                     append builddir [sign shared]
                     append builddir [sign load]
                     append builddir [sign symbols]
 
                     set logfile ~/testbuild/$builddir/build.log
 
                     puts "# $logfile" 
                     puts "if \[ ! -e $builddir \]; then mkdir $builddir; else rm -rf $builddir/tcl/; fi"
                     puts "cd $builddir"
                     puts "tar xvfz ../tcl8.4.4-cvs-head.tgz"
                     puts "cd tcl/unix/"
                     puts "echo `date` $logfile | tee $logfile"
                     puts "uname -a | tee --append $logfile"
                     puts "gcc -v 2>&1 | tee --append $logfile"
                     puts "./configure -$threads-threads -$langinfo-langinfo -$shared-shared -$load-load -$symbols-symbols 2>&1 | tee --append $logfile"
                     puts "make 2>&1 | tee --append $logfile"
                     puts "make test 2>&1 | tee --append $logfile"
                     puts "cd ~/testbuild"
                     puts -nonewline \n
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 }