Annotation of rpl/README, revision 1.12
1.1 bertrand 1: ================================================================================
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!
10:
11: I SHALL NOT ACCEPT ANY BUG REPORT FROM USERS THAT HAVE BUILD RPL/2 WITH
12: LESSTIF LIBRAIRIES SINCE OPENMOTIF IS AVAILABLE.
1.7 bertrand 13:
14: DO NOT USE 'make install-strip' THAT BREAKS RPL/2.
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16:
17: RPL/2 signifies Reverse Polish Lisp/2. This language is obvious derivated
18: from the first RPL written by Hewlett-Packard for its 28S calculator. Thus,
19: this language is a half-compiled high level language which can perform
20: symbolic and scientific computations.
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1.3 bertrand 22:
1.4 bertrand 23: * RPL/2 requires :
24: - nawk or gawk;
25: - libtool 1.5 or newer. To build RPL/2 on Mac OSX, you should have to
26: add libtool m4 path in tools/file-*/configure.ac and
27: tools/file-*/Makefile.am;
1.12 ! bertrand 28: - gcc-4.4 or newer;
! 29: - g++-4.4 or newer;
! 30: - gfortran-4.4 or newer.
1.4 bertrand 31:
32: RPL/2 build process invoques automake and autoconf.
33:
1.3 bertrand 34: * OpenSSL issue :
35:
36: OpenSSL does not use any configure script. If build process aborts on
37: error related to OpenSSL, you shall try to build OpenSSL before running
38: 'make'. On some system, OpenSSL configure script is unable to set compiler
39: flags.
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1.1 bertrand 41: * RPL/2 is known to run on :
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1.12 ! bertrand 43: - Linux (kernel 2.6.26 and above). Test distribution is Debian.
! 44: - Solaris 8 and above.
1.1 bertrand 45: It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
1.2 bertrand 46: 64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles or
47: specify some options. See 64bits on Solaris.
1.12 ! bertrand 48: - FreeBSD 7.x. I have installed a FreeBSD 7.0, upgraded to 7.2
1.8 bertrand 49: and RPL/2 ran without any trouble. RPL/2 does not run on early
50: FreeBSD 8.0 because sig_info_t struct is not filled. This bug is now
51: fixed. Someone has reported that FreeBSD 7.2 did not filled this
52: struct too...
1.12 ! bertrand 53: - NetBSD 5.0 and above.
! 54: - OpenBSD 4.8 and above.
1.8 bertrand 55: - Windows with Cygwin (>= 1.7.5).
1.12 ! bertrand 56: - OS/2 and eComStation with EMX (>= 0.9d). You probably have to
! 57: recreate configure script and makefiles with autoreconf.
! 58: - Mac OS X.
1.1 bertrand 59:
60: * RPL/2 should run on :
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1.12 ! bertrand 62: - AIX
1.1 bertrand 63: - HP-UX (10.20 and above), but not tested for a long time.
1.12 ! bertrand 64: - NetBSD 4.0 and above with restriction due to sigpending bug.
1.1 bertrand 65:
66: Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
67:
68: * RPL/2 is not supported on :
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1.2 bertrand 70: - OpenVMS (work in progress) on Alpha and Integrity due to some bugs in GNV.
71: RPL/2 never works on OpenVMS VAX because GNV is too old on this
72: architecture.
1.8 bertrand 73: - Hurd because sig_info_t is not filled.
1.1 bertrand 74:
75: * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
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1.8 bertrand 77: - Windows (all versions) without Cygwin.
1.1 bertrand 78: - Mac OS preX.
79:
80: Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
81: all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
82: and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
83: several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
84:
85: On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
1.4 bertrand 86: gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.2.0). It is possible to build
1.1 bertrand 87: RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
88: or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
89: combinaisons.
90:
91: * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
92:
93: You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
94:
95: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
96: FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
97:
98: If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
99: binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
100: on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
101: tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
102: specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
103:
104: If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
105: another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
106: is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
107: is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
108: (internal locked mutex).
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110: Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
111:
112: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
113: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
114: not stripped
115:
116: Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
117:
118: J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
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