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2: RPL/2 (R)
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6: WARNING :
7:
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.
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.
21:
22:
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;
28: - gcc-4.4 or newer;
29: - g++-4.4 or newer;
30: - gfortran-4.4 or newer;
31: - bash in /bin/bash. To build RPL/CAS on NetBSD, you have to add a soft link
32: like 'ln -s /usr/pkg/bin/bash /bin/bash'.
33:
34: RPL/2 build process invoques automake and autoconf.
35:
36: * OpenSSL issue :
37:
38: OpenSSL does not use any configure script. If build process aborts on
39: error related to OpenSSL, you shall try to build OpenSSL before running
40: 'make'. On some system, OpenSSL configure script is unable to set compiler
41: flags.
42:
43: * RPL/2 cross compilation :
44:
45: To cross-compile RPL/2, you have to build in a first time a native
46: RPL/2 on build host. Installation is not required. In a second time,
47: you have to configure RPL/2 for target host in another directory like :
48:
49: ../rpl/configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-full-static
50: --with-sysroot=/home/bertrand/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot
51: --without-mysql --without-postgresql --without-x
52: --with-rpltools=/home/bertrand/cvs/rpl/build --with-openssl-arch=linux-generic32
53:
54: Of course, you have to configure OpenSSL with --with-openssl-arch.
55:
56: * RPL/2 is known to run on :
57:
58: - Linux (kernel 2.6.26 and beyond). Test distribution is Debian.
59: - Solaris 8 and beyond.
60: It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
61: 64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles or
62: specify some options. See 64bits on Solaris.
63: - FreeBSD 7.x. I have installed a FreeBSD 7.0, upgraded to 7.2
64: and RPL/2 ran without any trouble. RPL/2 does not run on early
65: FreeBSD 8.0 because sig_info_t struct is not filled. This bug is now
66: fixed. Someone has reported that FreeBSD 7.2 did not filled this
67: struct too...
68: - NetBSD 5.0 and beyond.
69: - OpenBSD 4.8 and beyond.
70: - Windows with Cygwin (>= 1.7.5).
71: - OS/2 and eComStation with EMX (>= 0.9d). You probably have to
72: recreate configure script and makefiles with aclocal, autoconf and
73: automake.
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75: WARNING : eCS DEFINES TMP VARIABLE THAT OVERWRITES PATHS
76: IN FOPEN() SYSTEM CALL. /TMP/xxx IS REPLACED BY /%TMP%/xxx.
77: THIS BUG ONLY OCCURS WHEN RPL/2 IS CALLED FROM OS/2 OR 4OS2 SHELL.
78: WORKAROUND : DEFINE RPL_TMP_PATH WITH A DRIVE LETTER LIKE
79:
80: SET RPL_TMP_PATH=C:/tmp
81:
82: OR CALL RPL/2 FROM A BOURNE SHELL.
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84: - Mac OS X.
85:
86: * RPL/2 should run on :
87:
88: - AIX
89: - HP-UX (10.20 and beyond), but not tested for a long time.
90: - NetBSD 4.0 and beyond with restriction due to sigpending bug.
91:
92: Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
93:
94: * RPL/2 is not supported on :
95:
96: - OpenVMS (work in progress) on Alpha and Integrity due to some bugs in GNV.
97: RPL/2 never works on OpenVMS VAX because GNV is too old on this
98: architecture.
99: - Hurd because sig_info_t is not filled.
100:
101: * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
102:
103: - Windows (all versions) without Cygwin.
104: - Mac OS preX.
105:
106: Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
107: all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
108: and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
109: several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
110:
111: On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
112: gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.2.0). It is possible to build
113: RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
114: or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
115: combinaisons.
116:
117: * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
118:
119: You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
120:
121: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
122: FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
123:
124: If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
125: binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
126: on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
127: tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
128: specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
129:
130: If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
131: another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
132: is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
133: is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
134: (internal locked mutex).
135:
136: Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
137:
138: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
139: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
140: not stripped
141:
142: Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
143:
144: * OS/2 and eComstation
145:
146: GSL configure script is broken. You have to replace
147: $(SHELL) $(top_buildir)/libtool by sh $(top_buildir)/libtool in each
148: Makefile. By default, makefile's try to use ash.exe that is broken.
149:
150: J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
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