Re: [tkined] Scotty 2.1.10 on AIX

From: Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 13:20:59 MET


>>>>> Ilia Bunin writes:

Ilia> Hello! I have AIX 4.2, Tcl 8.0.4, Scotty 2.1.10. The product
Ilia> compiled through tcl2c loads tnm2.1.10.so to send snmp traps.
Ilia> This works perfectly on Solaris, but the same configuration has
Ilia> problems with AIX. I configure Tcl with --disable-shared
Ilia> --enable-static, also --enable-shared, for configure of scotty
Ilia> it doesn't matter, its Makefile doesn't change (with
Ilia> enable-shared)

The scotty package assumes that dynamic loadings works. So you have to
use --enable-shared I think. I am not familiar with AIX - but from
what I have heard, AIX dynamic loading is really strange (to say it
nicely).
 
Ilia> When running even the sources through tclsh (without compiling)
Ilia> after tnm2.1.10.so has been loaded, there is tclsh error: no
Ilia> value given for parameter snmp when calling proc ..., while this
Ilia> proc doesn't have parameters at all. It cold be connected to
Ilia> init.tcl, because I used another init.tcl from other platform,
Ilia> and got : no value given for parameter ~global? (or something
Ilia> else) when calling proc ...
 
Ilia> There was a workaround written in porting.notes about AIX, it
Ilia> says to add -bnoentry to SHLIB_LD, for Aix loader, but in Tcl
Ilia> 8.0.4 it is there already
 
Ilia> Additional strange behaviour of scotty - after every puts it
Ilia> adds a line "file" and after exit it writes : Usage - history
Ilia> file
 
Ilia> Could you please advise about this matter.

There is little I can do since I have the luck to have no access to
AIX. (And I do not plan to change this. ;-) You really need help from
an AIX guru who understands how dynamic loading works on AIX.

/js

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