Annotation of rpl/README, revision 1.1.1.1
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2: RPL/2 (R)
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6: WARNING :
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8: LESSTIF IS BROKEN AND CORRUPTS HEAP. PLEASE, DO NOT USE LESSTIF INSTEAD
9: REGULAR MOTIF LIBRARIES!
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11: I SHALL NOT ACCEPT ANY BUG REPORT FROM USERS THAT HAVE BUILD RPL/2 WITH
12: LESSTIF LIBRAIRIES SINCE OPENMOTIF IS AVAILABLE.
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15: RPL/2 signifies Reverse Polish Lisp/2. This language is obvious derivated
16: from the first RPL written by Hewlett-Packard for its 28S calculator. Thus,
17: this language is a half-compiled high level language which can perform
18: symbolic and scientific computations.
19:
20: * RPL/2 is known to run on :
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22: - Linux (kernel 2.6.12 and above) on i386, amd64, ppc32, sparc32,
23: sparc64, alpha. Test distribution is Debian. Warning, you have to
24: use NPTL, not LinuxThreads due to a bug in sem_post() that is not
25: async safe.
26: - Solaris 9 and above on i386, amd64, sparc32 (only Solaris 9) and sparc64.
27: It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
28: 64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles. See
29: 64bits on Solaris.
30: - FreeBSD 7.0 on i386.
31: - NetBSD 4.0 and above on sparc32 with a restriction. NetBSD's sigpending
32: is broken and it is impossible to use DETACH intrinsic. Bug report
33: has been done and this bug should be fixed in next NetBSD release.
34:
35: * RPL/2 should run on :
36:
37: - HP-UX (10.20 and above), but not tested for a long time.
38: - Linux (2.6.12 and above) on ppc64 and other hardware (arm, hppa...) or
39: with other distributions than Debian.
40: - FreeBSD 7.0 and above on other architecture than i386.
41: - NetBSD 4.0 and above on other architecture than sparc32 with restriction
42: due to sigpending bug.
43: - Mac OS X.
44:
45: Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
46:
47: * RPL/2 is not supported on :
48:
49: - OpenBSD due to a major bug in sigaltstack syscall when a program is
50: linked with -lthread. As this bug comes from OpenBSD libraries,
51: OpenBSD port has to wait for a fixed sigaltstack.
52: - OpenVMS (work in progress) on both VAX and Alpha due to some bugs in GNV.
53: - Hurd (vaporware...).
54:
55: * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
56:
57: - Cygwin due to some troubles between Cygwin Posix subsystem and Windows.
58: You can try, but I shall never support Cygwin. If someone proposes
59: patches to build RPL/2 on Cygwin, I won't modify official RPL/2 source
60: tree, but only propose these patches against official tarball.
61: - Windows (all versions).
62: - OS/2 and eComStation.
63: - Mac OS preX.
64:
65: Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
66: all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
67: and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
68: several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
69:
70: On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
71: gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.0.0). It is possible to build
72: RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
73: or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
74: combinaisons.
75:
76: * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
77:
78: You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
79:
80: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
81: FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
82:
83: If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
84: binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
85: on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
86: tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
87: specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
88:
89: If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
90: another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
91: is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
92: is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
93: (internal locked mutex).
94:
95: Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
96:
97: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
98: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
99: not stripped
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101: Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
102:
103: J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
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