hello

RE: Building TclPro on Linux

we are using TclPro1.4 on both NT and Solaris2 platforms and recently we =
have undertaken to migrate from Solaris to Linux. the version of Linux =
we are using is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3).

after downloading the appropriate version from the SorceForge.net =
website (TclPro141.linux.tar.gz) we were unable to get a successful =
build. looking at the version recommended for this platform was Red Hat =
5.0+, our's should work but we decided that it was probably better to =
download the TclPro source code and build it under our version of Red =
Hat.=20

following the directions in =
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tclpro/README.build.txt it is proving very =
difficult to compile TclPro and the instructions do not provide any =
assistance.=20

below i have attached some details of how the files were downloaded and =
some unsuccessful commands as recommended by the build instructions.

can you help?

Regards,
David Munt
SCA=20
Surpac Minex Group


% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tclpro co =
tclpro
cvs checkout: Updating tclpro
U tclpro/BUILDINFO
U tclpro/ChangeLog
. . .=20
% tclpro/TclProCheckout.tcl -user our_sf_login_name
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
% cd tclpro
% mkdir Linux
% cd Linux=20
% sh ../configure.in
../configure.in: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token =
`module_data.tcl.in'
../configure.in: line 7: `AC_INIT(module_data.tcl.in)'
% cd ../..
% ls -l -G -g tclpro
total 119
-rw-rw-r--    1       58 Dec  2  2000 aclocal.m4
-rw-rw-r--    1      259 Mar 31  2001 BUILDINFO
-rw-rw-r--    1    11516 Apr  1  2001 ChangeLog
drwxrwxr-x    3      512 Oct 18 13:34 config
-rw-rw-r--    1     8470 Mar  7  2001 configure.in
drwxrwxr-x    2      512 Oct 18 13:33 CVS
-rwxrwxr-x    1     8829 Mar 17  2001 get-expand
-rwxrwxr-x    1      682 Mar 29  2001 get-memchan
-rwxrwxr-x    1      681 Apr  1  2001 get-setops
-rwxrwxr-x    1      686 Mar 29  2001 get-trf
-rwxrwxr-x    1      760 Apr  1  2001 get-trfcrypt
-rw-rw-r--    1     2180 Nov  1  2000 license.terms
drwxrwxr-x    2      512 Oct 20 14:12 Linux
-rw-rw-r--    1     9112 Feb 23  2001 Makefile.in
-rw-rw-r--    1    24488 Mar  7  2001 module_data.tcl.in
drwxrwxr-x   15      512 Oct 18 13:34 modules
-rw-rw-r--    1      552 Mar  7  2001 README.akupries
-rw-rw-r--    1      600 Nov 24  1999 README.autoconf
-rw-rw-r--    1    13198 Jan 24  2001 README.build
-rw-rw-r--    1     5503 Feb 23  2001 README.FreeBSD
-rw-rw-r--    1     1544 Dec  2  2000 README.localtools
-rw-rw-r--    1     3319 Jan 24  2001 README.port
-rwxrwxr-x    1     4071 May 28  2001 README.Windows
drwxrwxr-x    3      512 Oct 18 13:34 snapshot
-rwxrwxr-x    1     1238 Dec  2  2000 TclProCheckout
-rwxrwxr-x    1     6088 Oct 18 15:21 TclProCheckout.tcl
-rw-rw-r--    1     2039 Jan 29  2000 tclpro.m4
drwxrwxr-x    4      512 Oct 18 13:34 tools