Re: [ns] Problem in running ns in SOLARIS

[Theodoros Salonidis <thsalon@Glue.umd.edu>]

Hi Lloyd, thanks a lot for the prompt response.

> 
> what version of the all-in-one tarball? (% ns-version)

most recent release (ns-2.1b7 )

> what version of Solaris? (> uname -a) 
>

SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

 
> My first post to ns-users concerned precisely this problem on Solaris.
> 
> http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/1997/msg00199.html
> 

I looked in chost.cc but there is no reference to random().
And cannot find any reference in any file in the ns and 
nam directories.

Any ideas?

  Thanks

    Theodoros


> L.
>  
> > While it has installed and built successfully, when I try to
> > run ANY example tcl script, I get the following message:
> > 
> > "random() called in ns.
> > Random is not portable, please use Random::uniform() instead."
> > 
> > The function random() is in the random.cc file and indeed
> > aborts when being invoked. The problem is that I cannot
> > locate WHERE random() is invoked so that I can comment it
> > out and replace it with Random::uniform() .
> 
> <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
> 
>