Re: Problems running test-all to verify ns.

[Ahmed A-G Helmy <ahelmy@catarina.usc.edu>]

Amr,

this problem is probably due to having the wrong version of perl in your 
path... 

try putting perl 5.0 in your path, or modify the call in the 
test-suite.tcl file to perl to call perl 5,

Regards,
-A

> 
> Hi ns-ers,
> 
>   I installed ns-2.0 on a Pentium machine running FreeBSD 2.2.5.
> The machine already had tcl7.6 and tk4.2 installed. I just needed to
> install otcl and libtclcl. I also installed xgraph. Then I compiled ns and
> it compiled OK.
> 
>   The problem now is that when I run the test-all script I get the
> following response:
> 
> > ./test-all 
> tahoe1 tahoe2 tahoe3 tahoe4 no_bug bug reno1 reno renoA reno2 reno3 reno4
> reno4a reno5 telnet delayed phase phase1 phase2 timers stats
> 
> Running test tahoe1
> 0/cwnd=1.0000/ssthresh=50/ack=-1
> 1/cwnd=16.0000/ssthresh=50/ack=14
> 2/cwnd=4.0000/ssthresh=13/ack=41
> 3/cwnd=14.3212/ssthresh=13/ack=73
> 4/cwnd=18.2576/ssthresh=13/ack=137
> Test output differs from reference output
> Diagnose with: diff test-output/tahoe1.test test-output/tahoe1
> Differences due to floating-point formatting are not significant.
> next?
> Problems found with input data.
> 
> Then when I looked at the test-output/tahoe1.test file I found that it was
> empty, it only contains the following lines:
> 
> > less test-output/tahoe1.test 
> TitleText: tahoe
> Device: Postscript
> 
> and thats it.
> 
> Any help regarding what the problem might be would be greatly appreciated.
> I see that somebody posted on the list already asking about the "Problems
> found with input data" message which xgraph generates. This problem happens
> here because the file is simply empty (no datat points !)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- Amr
>  
> 
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