Re: can't ./configure scotty on BSD/OS 2.0.1

Cameron Laird (claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:47:11 -0500 (CDT)

From owner-tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Wed Aug 28 15:19:52 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:10:52 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@cs.utwente.nl>
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Scotty comes with a Makefile/configure setup which relies on dynamic
loading. So you have two options:

1) Find out how dynamic loading works on BSD/OS 2.0.1 and recompile
Tcl to allow dynamic loading. (Perhaps you can find someone who
did this job for you because it is something which is not a
beginners task.
It doesn't. I might be wrong about this--
I'm between machines now, and don't have all
the references handy--but I believe there is
no notion of shared objects with BSD/OS 2.0.1.

2) Rewrite the scotty Makefiles so that you can build a statically
linked version. This requires some Tcl/Tk and C language knowledge.
Perhaps there is someone on this list who already did this work?
I just did it for the closely-related BSD/386
1.1. It wasn't pretty, and I have zero expec-
tation now that I'll go to the trouble of
organizing an automated patch. I'm willing to
work with needy individuals.

Solution 1) would be the best solution in the long term since I do not
plan to support a static version anymore. Oh yes, of course, you also
have the option to change the operating system. ;-)
'Know what? That's what we're deciding, in at
least one case.

Juergen

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