Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:55:55 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: markd@grizzly.com (Mark Diekhans) Cc: sc67+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <9501091555.AA20727@olympus> 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 -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________________
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