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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk for FreeBSD
To: markd@grizzly.com (Mark Diekhans)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:55:55 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199501080101.RAA28276@Grizzly.COM> from "Mark Diekhans" at Jan 7, 95 05:01:07 pm
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> 
> >    Has anyone ported Tcl/Tk to FreeBSD/x386. I know it was ported to
> >DOS/Windows/WinNT, already...
> 
> Tcl/Tk/TclX are all pretty straight forward to get working on FreeBSD 2.0.
> I believe they are in the ports directory on ftp.freebsd.org. 
> 
> The only major problem is the msun math library that is shipped as libm on
> FreeBSD 2.0.  Math library errors generate SIGFPE rather than calling matherr
> or returning NaN.  This causes the test to core dump.  I grabbed the libm
> source from the FreeBSD source dist and used it rather than msun to get
> around these problems.
> 
> Please feel free to contact me directly if you (or anyone else) has problems
> with Tcl on FreeBSD.
> 
> Mark
> 

Except that Tk does not build archive libraries on which tclX is dependent.
It needs to be hacked into the makefile.

Boyd

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 Boyd Faulkner                                       faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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