Re: Installation of NS2 on SCO free OpenServer 5.0.2/4

["Ihor Strutynskyj" <ivs2569@megahertz.njit.edu>]

>> ns2.1.b1   IS compatible with SCO OpenServer 5.0.2.
>>
>> Explanations.
>> With the same libraries (tcl7.6, tk4.2, otcl0.96, tclcl1.b3) no matter
>> what compiler I use (native SCO cc or GNU gcc2.7.2.1)
>>  I had ns2.0 ALWAYS FAIL (the error I described in previos message)
>> with STATIC or SHARED versions of these libraries.
>
>There appears to be some kind of a memory issue with oTCL, when I
>was doing some porting work earlier in the summer. Tcl/Tk functions
>worked (even under Windows 95), but for some reason, oTCL's test
>suite wouldn't. It appeared at the time to be a memory clobbering
>problem which I didn't completely track down.
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case for SCO.


I think you are right. When I was debugging that error with ns2.0 I got
the feeling that something is wrong with the memory (strange dumping
of the file ns-tcl.cc on the screen), but did not have time to track it down
to
the source of memory mishandling. And also in the case with ns2.1.b1 and
tcl/tk8.0p1 the memory fail is so deep I cann't start debugger to look at
it.
I'll test oTCL with tcl/tk8.0p1 as well as with tcl/tk7.6 and see what I'll
get.

Ihor.