Installing Tcl8.6b1.1 on Solaris2.5

I had built this nifty little web server and wanted to use it for automating some critical sysadmin tasks. It used coroutines, and so I decided to go with CVS head.

But this was the only machine with solaris 2.5 that was still working. So I had to build it on the machine. I thought no big deal.

Didn't have cvs. No big deal (NBD), checked out on linux and ftped into the solaris box.

Didn't have gcc. NBD. Went to friendly neighbourhood http://www.sunfreeware.com (I recommend it highly to anyone who does anything on solaris) and downloaded the latest gcc I could find gcc-3.4.2-sol25-sparc-local.gz. Sunfreeware clearly mentioned I needed libiconv, so I got the latest of that too: libiconv-1.11-sol25-sparc-local.gz

# gzip -d gcc-3.4.2-sol25-sparc-local.gz

# pkgadd -d gcc-3.4.2-sol25-sparc-local

pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open admin file

Ok. NBD. Google is our friend

http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2001-November/008472.html gives the solution

# touch /var/sadm/install/admin/default

# chown root /var/sadm/install/admin/default

# chmod sys /var/sadm/install/admin/default

# chmod 444 /var/sadm/install/admin/default

Now retry

# pkgadd -d gcc-3.4.2-sol25-sparc-local

That printed a bunch of stuff, then aborted, the important message being

process failed, exit code 12

Now my friend Google didn't give anything directly useful. But there were some pointers indicating it was running out of space somewhere. So in another

window as a user, I did df while the process was running.

csh% while true

> df -k

> sleep 1

> end

csh%

Then I watched it while I repeated the pkgadd command as root. I soon saw

that I was running out of space on /tmp, which is the same as swap. NBD. I

found I had tons of space on /export. the uncompressed pkg file was about 110MB, so I figured 130MB more swap should cover anything

# mkfile 130m /export/moreswap

# swap -a /export/moreswap

Retry the command.

# pkgadd -d gcc-3.4.2-sol25-sparc-local

Now it went through fine. Delete the extra swap

# swap -d /export/moreswap

# rm /export/moreswap

and then as a user check it

# gcc -v

That printed something about libiconv which I forgot to install.

# pkgadd -d libiconv-1.11-sol25-sparc-local

Then gcc seemed to startup. Now onto the tcl part. Starting from the

untarred tcl folder as a user.

$ cd unix

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1

lots of lines here, then many sets like this:

checking float.h usability... no

checking float.h presence... yes

configure: WARNING: float.h: present but cannot be compiled

configure: WARNING: float.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?

configure: WARNING: float.h: see the Autoconf documentation

configure: WARNING: float.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"

configure: WARNING: float.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result

configure: WARNING: float.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence

configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##

configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the tcl lists. ##

configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##

checking for float.h... yes

Obviously I didn't report it to the tcl lists. I just let configure finish even

with all the warnings.

$ make

gcc .../generic/regcomp.c

In file included from /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/generic/tcl.h:142,

from /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/generic/tclInt.h:44,

from /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/generic/regcustom.h:33,

from /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/generic/regguts.h:36,

from /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/generic/regcomp.c:33:

/usr/local/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:32:25: sys/va_list.h: No such file or directory

*** Error code 1

That was strange - stdio.h couldn't find sys/va_list.h. I searched around and couldn't find it either. But grepping for va_list stuff showed that it was in

stdarg.h which was already being included. I just commented that line out

in stdio.h. (diff -u)

+ /*

#include <va_list.h>

+ */

Then I redid the configure cleaning the config cache:

$ make distclean

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1

after that finished.

$ make

Ignored a bunch of warnings there, then it hit an error:

gcc -c ... unix/tclUnixSock.c

.../unix/tclUnixSock.c: In function `TcpClose2Proc':

.../unix/tclUnixSock.c:554: error: `SHUT_RD' undeclared (first use in this function)

.../unix/tclUnixSock.c:554: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

.../unix/tclUnixSock.c:554: error: for each function it appears in.)

.../unix/tclUnixSock.c:557: error: `SHUT_WR' undeclared (first use in this function)

*** Error code 1

Looking at tclUnixSock.c, this was in a function called TcpClose2Proc, which

in turn called shutdown (which is used to close one half of a bidi socket)

I found shutdown.h in sys/socket.h, but there was no mention of the defines that the code was looking for.   I just put the defines in the source file:

  static int

  TcpClose2Proc(

   ClientData instanceData, /* The socket to close. */

   Tcl_Interp *interp, /* For error reporting. */

   int flags) /* Flags that indicate which side to close. */

  {

+ #define SHUT_RD 0
+ #define SHUT_WR 1

+

Then it went all the way to building the executable, then failed with:

gcc -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe tclAppInit.o -L/usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/unix \

-ltcl8.6 -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lm -Wl,-R,/usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/lib -o tclsh

Undefined first referenced

symbol in file

__register_frame_info /usr/local/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.4.2/crtbegin.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/local/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.4.2/../../../libgcc_s.so.1)

vsnprintf /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/unix/libtcl8.6.so

__deregister_frame_info /usr/local/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.4.2/crtbegin.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/local/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.4.2/../../../libgcc_s.so.1)

ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to tclsh

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

*** Error code 1

make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tclsh'

NBD. I Have to figure out where vsnprintf is defined and add that

$ cd /usr/local/lib

$ for i in *.a; do echo $i; nm $i | grep vsnprintf; done

libcharset.a

libiberty.a

[6] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |vsnprintf

libiberty.a[vsnprintf.o]:

[8] | 0| 164|FUNC |GLOB |0 |2 |vsnprintf

[1] | 0| 0|FILE |LOCL |0 |ABS |vsnprintf.c

libobjc.a

libstdc++.a

libsupc++.a

Ah ha. In -liberty, so I just add that to the command line in link command line in the makefile. Also poked around on the web and found that the register_frame_info is in -lgcc_s which is already included, but I guess it's an ordering problem.

From:

..... -o tclsh

To:

..... -liberty -lgcc_s -o tclsh

Then we have a tclsh! But it still fails later.

Configuring package 'itcl'

Configuring package 'tdbc'

Building package 'itcl'

make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `itcl2TclOO.o'

Current working directory /export/home/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/unix/pkgs/itcl

*** Error code 1

make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `packages'

Let's try it out.

$ ./tclsh

ld.so.1: ./tclsh: fatal: libtcl8.6.so: can't open file: errno=2

Killed

NBD.

$ setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$ ./tclsh

% info patchlevel

8.6b1.1

%

Yay!!

Now onto building the packages. Turns out I didn't have gmake installed on this. sunfreeware to the rescue. I downloaded and installed make-3.81-sol25-sparc-local.gz and a dependency libintl-3.4.0-sol25-sparc-local.gz. The tcl core does not depend on VPATH but looks like the pkgs do.

# pkgadd -d make-3.81-sol25-sparc-local

# pkgadd -d libintl-3.4.0-sol25-sparc-local

$ make

And it went all the way through compile! Then

$ make install

/bin/bash: /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/pkgs/tdbc/tclconfig/install-sh: Permission denied

NBD

$ chmod +x /usr/local/tcl/8.6b1.1/tcl/pkgs/tdbc/tclconfig/install-sh

$ make install

And it went through. We're done. That was not trivial, but still pretty easy. Thanks Tcl!